A very weird and incredibly distasteful artefact of the Current Year is those fake maternity bed photos featuring two blokes and a newborn baby. Total erasure of the kid's actual mother who is probably still recovering in a real maternity bed.
Important to continue to ridicule them because of what they represent; an attempt to obfuscate reality, a deliberate separation of children from their mothers.
In almost any other context we would have no problem saying that children should not be taken from their mothers at birth (people get very indignant about it being done by e.g. nuns to unmarried women in 1960s Ireland). But slap a rainbow on the procedure & no-one bats an eyelid.

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Headshot here from @si_rubinstein in his enjoyable review of that new book about how awesome all the people who fought the British Empire were. Image
Whole piece here: engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-br… Sounds like Veevers is exactly the kind of historian I thought he would be when I read about the subject of the book.
Frustrating thing is, there is probably a great history book to be written dealing with the nobility & fighting spirit of many of our opponents during the imperial period - the Zulus & the Afghans spring to mind - but you can't do that when you're in hoc to contemporary pieties.
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