- controlled burns is a huge issue. Fuel builds up, it’s not removed, and then you get an out of control fire when Santa Ana winds happen (super fast winds, sometimes 100 mph). -clean air act counts control burns as pollution. Plus lawsuits / environmental compliance slows down control burns, sometimes by years. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/01/the-daily-chart-a-saga-of-fire-and-water.php
- Karen Bass, LA Mayor, was in Ghana when the fires started to witness their Presidential Inauguration. She was actually a candidate to become the VP, instead of Kamala. Some have suggested she is the ultimate DEI hire.
- President Biden's visit to LA grounded tankers to fight the fire.
- LA Department of Water and Power, headed by another Woman, is not focused on fixing infrastructure, with many water pipes over 100 years old. Th at is why the water ran dry. They are in band aid mode, so when a water breaks happen, such as the UCLA Library a few years ago, that gets fixed.
- LA Fire Dept fired a bunch of people over the Covid Shot. Litigation is ongoing.
The only issue about controlled burns in Australia is if they get out of hand. We have to have regular controlled burns because our bush is so flammable.
In the US, a controlled burn gets out of control, such as New Mexico, and it gets huge attention. The Biden Administration shut down controlled burns on Federal Land for a while because of that in 2021.
A very insightful article about controlled burns in California from 2020. Nothing has changed since then. Basically 20 million acres in California would need to be controlled burns, and we are doing around 20,000 a year. And the person in charge of a burn may be personally liable.
Another question is why the 3 water tanks in pacific palisades ran out at 3 am. Biden said the power was cut so the pumps could not work, till generators were brought in.
And more bad timing, the la mayor asked for $49 m in cuts a week before the fires. And supposedly basic maintenance was not being done due to excessive overtime due to lack of personnel / understaffing. But they are at 8% women! And all 3 fire department leaders are Lesbians.
The more I'm finding out about this debacle, the more annoyed I have become. Wokeness, the Green agenda and never ending wars have all played their part while the people suffer.
Thanks Ray. I read about the DEI fire chief hire and you have filled in a bit more information that is not accessible all in one place.
We have similar issues in the UK and Europe as well where our governments do not do the basics like dredging rivers and streams (to protect wildlife etc) and guess what it causes lots of floods.
I think the fires in Australia (23/24 not sure when )were mostly due to not doing controlled burns and cutbacks as well.
After they caught the arsonist supposedly responsible for starting the Kenneth fire I wonder how much of this is arson?
It's sad when we have to accept that the Green Lobby has possibly been involved in guerrilla tactics for years. This was suggested by Sky News Australia back in 23/24 when arson was suspected. But the issue of forest management or mismanagement was also discussed frequently. But mismanagement has reached 'epidemic' proportions among Western leaders.
Rupert Murdoch is hysterically anti-Green. The Australian Greens have never opposed controlled burning, but his misinformation on the subject was very effective in making country farmers very anti-Green. The German Foreign Minister, elected as a Green, has betrayed the pillars of the international Green movement: Peace; Social Justice (Murdoch's bugbear); the Environment; and Grass Roots Democracy.
However, as with the recent flooding episode, the victims of natural disasters can anticipate a FEMA payout of $750. That should cover it. (sarc) Good old US Exceptionalism
Another great piece. I take it the southfront map at Kreminna where it refers to braveheart on 6 January 2024, the braveheart is a military implement?. In my stupidity i thought it was a reference to the Scottish medic who has just been killed. Hats off to all these brave young guys who go to Ukraine to offer medical triage on the front lines despite, in many cases, having no medical training. There was an article in The Guardian re the LA fires. Apparently, 25 percent of the firefighters are prisoners on $5 per day. I don't know if Ray can confirm whether that's true or not. I tend to take everything in that rag with a pinch of salt. THere must be a degree of natural fire. As you know I'm a big fan of the Doors and in LA Woman Jim Morrison wrote of LA in 1970 " i see your hair is burning, the hills are filled with fire." According to reports it cost $900 million to train the 155th mechanised brigade. The videos of captured Ukrainians are becoming more frequent and the prisoners are quite openly critical of their officer class and Zelensky. We are surely reaching the end game
Thanks for that Michael. The Braveheart is an AS90 British self propelled 155mm howitzer. But the real Braveheart was Robert the Bruce, not William Wallace - as you will know. I notice that the number surrendering is increasing - 95 this week I think. I'll start including them in the Update if they continues at this level.
Zelensky THINKS he is a comedian, but the real comedian is Dmitry Medvedev:
"We’ve got no way of knowing how much Trump will accomplish in his second term, but he is off to a really fun start.
His reasoning seems clear enough. There is not going to be a quick solution to the conflict in Ukraine; the US economy will waddle on at a leisurely pace; even the fight against migrants is unlikely to end up in a resounding victory.
So instead, Trump has decided to 'reshape' the world. That's right – he wants to redraw the political map in his own style. A new, vibrant and colorful globe to replace the dull and gray old one. All of his plans are over the top and eccentric – and totally unworkable. This is what he’s got in mind:
1. First, the 'super-sizing' of America: we start by taking the backwater countryside called Canada (why not? It will make for a nice and big US state, plus the whole continent would belong to the Yankees now); then seize Greenland from Denmark (don't exactly know what it is, but they've got plenty of land).
2. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico (for no particular reason; just because the US is the biggest kid on the block; also, the current name makes people think about the Latino population).
3. Weaponizing Elon Musk and using him to take down ‘rapist Starmer’ and ‘fool Scholz’ on X. A simple plan, and at zero cost: “Just show them who is the boss of this house”. Better yet, why not add the UK itself to America's potpourri list of territorial claims?"
Thanks for the update Rob. Very informative as usual.
I listened to Baerbock's speech on the Israeli genocide and the collateral damage (i.e. 50,000 or so dead) that occurs when Israel targets Gaza and how she was okay with that and she and Germany supported it.
Another insane politician.
I also read on Topwar that a target for the recent UAF kamikaze attack in Kursk area could have been the highlands that overlook Sudzha.
These start near the Berdin farmstead and if the banderists could have occupied them they could perhaps have delayed being kicked out of Sudzha and the eventual Kursk mop up before peacetalks.
Not that it even looks like the banderists or their handlers are even looking for peacetalks with the carnage they are unleashing.
Yes, funny that someone from Germany would complain about few Russian military bases in Syria while there are 42 foreign military bases in Germany https://ibb.co/303ZMCD (hope the image link works)
28 US bases, 6 UK bases, 5 NATO bases, one French, one Canadian and one half US half French base, that would make 42 total...
Someone already said it but yes, many EU countries have also donated a lot of firefighting equipment to Ukraine - in some places even from active use. Result : due to rising energy costs - a lot of people have taken old fireplaces and woodstoves etc. back to use, and because of that, there has been more housefires than usual and now there is not enough firefighting equipment to respond to these in time, because the equipment was given away for appearances sake, to give local politician and/or fire chief pro-Ukraine PR points, amazing stupidity on the part of those who donated the equipment, wokeness and 'ukraine brain' really do hurt normal people.
Interesting comments on Musk. Clearly, twitter had an outsized influence on the election of Trump, but it remains to be seen what he really believes. Especially, after his hypocritical stance on H1B workers in the US. But a wholesale tear down on the government bloat would be a strong signal.
And I’m still not decided on whether Trump will change anything substantial or not. If he pivoted from blowhard to presidential in his manner, it would be well-received by most.
For me, the jury's out on both of them so I'm keeping an open mind. At this point, I'm inclined to believe that neither wants to get involved in wars. They are both capitalist entrepreneurs - rather than saviours - so I expect them to act as such.
Thanks Rob, good as usual despite your anti-green stuff. Regarding the fires in Los Angeles, they are on such a scale that I doubt that much could be done even if everything was working optimally and this is far from the case. Two hundred blokes with hoses and trucks and even aeroplanes offer little resistance to a fire storm that's over 1000C and moving at even 20kmph over a front measured in tens of kilometres.
Regarding controlled burns, you cannot do them if they can't be controlled. In Australia we have had many bushfires as a result of controlled burns getting away. In addition some places that burnt in the Black Saturday fires had been burnt several months previously in earlier bushfires which makes you wonder as to how effective controlled burns actually are. I think people would be better off treating these fires as tsunamis rather than imagining that they can do much about them.
Stopping them when they are small seems to me the best policy, but that requires a different mindset than the Just-In-Time economic order we now have. Governments do not want to fund things on a just in case basis, at least in the West anyway as they don't want people and equipment sitting around idle. It offends the Protestant work ethic and you can't have that. I'm not sure if it is still the case but nothing was done about fires until they threatened property, so small fires were allowed to build up until they were huge and then threatened property but by that time almost nothing could be done about them.
Not sure how truthful it is, but it does point to the banderist ideology present in Ukraine.
Apparently the azov brigade thought it was similar to the Russian Brody offensive in Western Ukraine just after Barbarossa in 1941.
Actually a larger tank battle than Prokhorovka/ Kursk 1943.
On further research I found that the nazi defence of the counter attack was aided by Ukrainian nationalist guerrillas at the time.
So they compare their battle to the nazi operations in WW2.
Just explains their mindset and the endemic nationalist fanaticism they have involved the Western World in.
They like their bloody WW2 tactics as well and the Ukrainian system is clearly subserving its population through banderist media and education.
Pravda always gives out a lot of articles in which Ukrainian soldiers refer to the fighting as stopping the Russians in order to stop them invading Europe.
Yet our clown leaders just continue to blindly follow.
Dangerous times fronted by Z the actor/ comedian playing as corporal Adolf Hitler.
I've seen plenty of evidence of Banderites in Ukraine over the years starting with the liberation of Mariupol when I was following Patrick Lancaster - who is in Kursk now. Yes - many seem to think Prokhorovka was the largest tanks battle but it was Brody. Thanks for that.
Joy, if you look at a map of uk election results for northern Ireland and Wales you will see the areas which are most affiliated to the UK in terms of voting patterns are the supplanted areas. In both countries the natives are to the interior. In Wales in particular you can see the Welsh language speaking areas still remain surrounded by the settlements Edward 1st put in place in the 13th century. Scotland is slightly different but the argument remains that Scotland might also be subject to colonialism. My point is that 3 out of 4 countries in Britain are probably subject to colonialism from London and London itself is probably alreasy a US outpost. Many in Scotland support the Russian speaking areas in Ukraine because they identify with their plight.
We lived in the Welsh Speaking heartland of Wales for years, including Dolgellau (Gwynedd). I played folk venues in the area but not in Dolgellau Folk Club because they wouldn't allow English. So I set up my own group in a pub. I did the same in Machynlleth (Montgomeryshire). In the hills to the south of Mach, Owen Glyndwr ambushed and beat the English with his style of guerilla warfare.
I left school 1991 and hadn't been taught any Scottish history despite being educated in Scotland. We werent even taught that there were Scottish Luddites, Reformists, Chartists. Everything was taught through the prism of English history. I was taught about German, French, Italian, Russian and English history but no Scottish, Irish and Welsh history.
I live in Los Angeles county. My 2 cents:
- controlled burns is a huge issue. Fuel builds up, it’s not removed, and then you get an out of control fire when Santa Ana winds happen (super fast winds, sometimes 100 mph). -clean air act counts control burns as pollution. Plus lawsuits / environmental compliance slows down control burns, sometimes by years. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/01/the-daily-chart-a-saga-of-fire-and-water.php
- Karen Bass, LA Mayor, was in Ghana when the fires started to witness their Presidential Inauguration. She was actually a candidate to become the VP, instead of Kamala. Some have suggested she is the ultimate DEI hire.
- Head of LA City Fire Department was first Woman in position, and a Lesbian. Her #1 priority was diversity. Karen Bass also cut the budget. And the Fire Dept. started a DEI department. https://revolver.news/2025/01/la-burns-down-while-gay-dei-fire-chief-focuses-on-lgbtq/
- President Biden's visit to LA grounded tankers to fight the fire.
- LA Department of Water and Power, headed by another Woman, is not focused on fixing infrastructure, with many water pipes over 100 years old. Th at is why the water ran dry. They are in band aid mode, so when a water breaks happen, such as the UCLA Library a few years ago, that gets fixed.
- LA Fire Dept fired a bunch of people over the Covid Shot. Litigation is ongoing.
- Adam Carrella went viral, with his story of a 7 year wait because being a White Male to apply to the fire department. https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/adam-carollas-la-firefighter-dei/
- Gov. Newsom reduced the budget for fire prevention.
- Biden Administration stopped control burns in October. They were worried in case a controlled burn got out of control.
- Twitter is showing drone views that are just amazing on the devastation. Mainstream media seems to be sanitizing it. https://instapundit.com/694996/
- Many Fire Insurance policies got canceled.
- So Cal Edison is not focused on burying power lines, but green power. They do what th Gov. tells them to do.
- My gut feeling is the Pacific Palisades fire cause will be found to be homeless. https://abc7.com/post/people-living-rvs-pch-causing-concern-people-pacific/15118402/
Thanks for that Ray - much appreciated. The control burns thing was an issue during bush fires in Australia, some years ago if memory serves me well.
The only issue about controlled burns in Australia is if they get out of hand. We have to have regular controlled burns because our bush is so flammable.
In the US, a controlled burn gets out of control, such as New Mexico, and it gets huge attention. The Biden Administration shut down controlled burns on Federal Land for a while because of that in 2021.
A very insightful article about controlled burns in California from 2020. Nothing has changed since then. Basically 20 million acres in California would need to be controlled burns, and we are doing around 20,000 a year. And the person in charge of a burn may be personally liable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen
Approval for a controlled burn in California takes between 3.6 - 7.2 years:
https://www.newsweek.com/controlled-burns-california-forest-management-los-angeles-fires-2012492
But wait, there's more! The water reservoir serving Pacific Palisades was empty. For maintenance. During fire season.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline
More on the reservoir and broken fire hydrants:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14272399/LA-water-chief-Janisse-Quinones-fire-hydrants-reservoir-failures-Palisades.html
The question is how long has the reservoir been empty. There is a picture of it empty in 2022.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/obvious-blue-model-failure-its-unclear?
Another question is why the 3 water tanks in pacific palisades ran out at 3 am. Biden said the power was cut so the pumps could not work, till generators were brought in.
And more bad timing, the la mayor asked for $49 m in cuts a week before the fires. And supposedly basic maintenance was not being done due to excessive overtime due to lack of personnel / understaffing. But they are at 8% women! And all 3 fire department leaders are Lesbians.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/01/10/new-bass-demanded-49m-in-lafd-cuts-one-week-before-wildfires-n3798671
The more I'm finding out about this debacle, the more annoyed I have become. Wokeness, the Green agenda and never ending wars have all played their part while the people suffer.
Thanks Ray. I read about the DEI fire chief hire and you have filled in a bit more information that is not accessible all in one place.
We have similar issues in the UK and Europe as well where our governments do not do the basics like dredging rivers and streams (to protect wildlife etc) and guess what it causes lots of floods.
I think the fires in Australia (23/24 not sure when )were mostly due to not doing controlled burns and cutbacks as well.
After they caught the arsonist supposedly responsible for starting the Kenneth fire I wonder how much of this is arson?
It's sad when we have to accept that the Green Lobby has possibly been involved in guerrilla tactics for years. This was suggested by Sky News Australia back in 23/24 when arson was suspected. But the issue of forest management or mismanagement was also discussed frequently. But mismanagement has reached 'epidemic' proportions among Western leaders.
Rupert Murdoch is hysterically anti-Green. The Australian Greens have never opposed controlled burning, but his misinformation on the subject was very effective in making country farmers very anti-Green. The German Foreign Minister, elected as a Green, has betrayed the pillars of the international Green movement: Peace; Social Justice (Murdoch's bugbear); the Environment; and Grass Roots Democracy.
The Green movement is the antithesis of the one I used to be part of years ago.
However, as with the recent flooding episode, the victims of natural disasters can anticipate a FEMA payout of $750. That should cover it. (sarc) Good old US Exceptionalism
My guesses:
A mixture of power lines (not buried due to other priorities), homeless, and a bit of arson.
Terrifying story n looters:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/california_wildfires_now_for_the_arsonists_and_looters.html
Another great piece. I take it the southfront map at Kreminna where it refers to braveheart on 6 January 2024, the braveheart is a military implement?. In my stupidity i thought it was a reference to the Scottish medic who has just been killed. Hats off to all these brave young guys who go to Ukraine to offer medical triage on the front lines despite, in many cases, having no medical training. There was an article in The Guardian re the LA fires. Apparently, 25 percent of the firefighters are prisoners on $5 per day. I don't know if Ray can confirm whether that's true or not. I tend to take everything in that rag with a pinch of salt. THere must be a degree of natural fire. As you know I'm a big fan of the Doors and in LA Woman Jim Morrison wrote of LA in 1970 " i see your hair is burning, the hills are filled with fire." According to reports it cost $900 million to train the 155th mechanised brigade. The videos of captured Ukrainians are becoming more frequent and the prisoners are quite openly critical of their officer class and Zelensky. We are surely reaching the end game
Thanks for that Michael. The Braveheart is an AS90 British self propelled 155mm howitzer. But the real Braveheart was Robert the Bruce, not William Wallace - as you will know. I notice that the number surrendering is increasing - 95 this week I think. I'll start including them in the Update if they continues at this level.
Zelensky THINKS he is a comedian, but the real comedian is Dmitry Medvedev:
"We’ve got no way of knowing how much Trump will accomplish in his second term, but he is off to a really fun start.
His reasoning seems clear enough. There is not going to be a quick solution to the conflict in Ukraine; the US economy will waddle on at a leisurely pace; even the fight against migrants is unlikely to end up in a resounding victory.
So instead, Trump has decided to 'reshape' the world. That's right – he wants to redraw the political map in his own style. A new, vibrant and colorful globe to replace the dull and gray old one. All of his plans are over the top and eccentric – and totally unworkable. This is what he’s got in mind:
1. First, the 'super-sizing' of America: we start by taking the backwater countryside called Canada (why not? It will make for a nice and big US state, plus the whole continent would belong to the Yankees now); then seize Greenland from Denmark (don't exactly know what it is, but they've got plenty of land).
2. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico (for no particular reason; just because the US is the biggest kid on the block; also, the current name makes people think about the Latino population).
3. Weaponizing Elon Musk and using him to take down ‘rapist Starmer’ and ‘fool Scholz’ on X. A simple plan, and at zero cost: “Just show them who is the boss of this house”. Better yet, why not add the UK itself to America's potpourri list of territorial claims?"
Yes - I saw Medvedev's comments but the Update was getting too long to include them. He has a great sense of humour.
Thanks for the update Rob. Very informative as usual.
I listened to Baerbock's speech on the Israeli genocide and the collateral damage (i.e. 50,000 or so dead) that occurs when Israel targets Gaza and how she was okay with that and she and Germany supported it.
Another insane politician.
I also read on Topwar that a target for the recent UAF kamikaze attack in Kursk area could have been the highlands that overlook Sudzha.
These start near the Berdin farmstead and if the banderists could have occupied them they could perhaps have delayed being kicked out of Sudzha and the eventual Kursk mop up before peacetalks.
Not that it even looks like the banderists or their handlers are even looking for peacetalks with the carnage they are unleashing.
Thanks Anthony. There are no updates on Sudzha/Berdin on the War Chronicle as yet.
Thanks Rob, information is thin on the ground everywhere.
I read on legitimny on Friday that his sources say that UAF reserves to Kursk are being reduced-possibly due to another build up somewhere else.
Intelslava has highlighted the story of prisoners saying that blocking detachments are being used to force the attacks.
Morale must be very close to collapse, but the UAF still follows its orders to the death.
Yes, funny that someone from Germany would complain about few Russian military bases in Syria while there are 42 foreign military bases in Germany https://ibb.co/303ZMCD (hope the image link works)
28 US bases, 6 UK bases, 5 NATO bases, one French, one Canadian and one half US half French base, that would make 42 total...
Someone already said it but yes, many EU countries have also donated a lot of firefighting equipment to Ukraine - in some places even from active use. Result : due to rising energy costs - a lot of people have taken old fireplaces and woodstoves etc. back to use, and because of that, there has been more housefires than usual and now there is not enough firefighting equipment to respond to these in time, because the equipment was given away for appearances sake, to give local politician and/or fire chief pro-Ukraine PR points, amazing stupidity on the part of those who donated the equipment, wokeness and 'ukraine brain' really do hurt normal people.
Thanks for that Bread - Yes, the image worked.
Interesting comments on Musk. Clearly, twitter had an outsized influence on the election of Trump, but it remains to be seen what he really believes. Especially, after his hypocritical stance on H1B workers in the US. But a wholesale tear down on the government bloat would be a strong signal.
And I’m still not decided on whether Trump will change anything substantial or not. If he pivoted from blowhard to presidential in his manner, it would be well-received by most.
For me, the jury's out on both of them so I'm keeping an open mind. At this point, I'm inclined to believe that neither wants to get involved in wars. They are both capitalist entrepreneurs - rather than saviours - so I expect them to act as such.
Thanks Rob, good as usual despite your anti-green stuff. Regarding the fires in Los Angeles, they are on such a scale that I doubt that much could be done even if everything was working optimally and this is far from the case. Two hundred blokes with hoses and trucks and even aeroplanes offer little resistance to a fire storm that's over 1000C and moving at even 20kmph over a front measured in tens of kilometres.
Regarding controlled burns, you cannot do them if they can't be controlled. In Australia we have had many bushfires as a result of controlled burns getting away. In addition some places that burnt in the Black Saturday fires had been burnt several months previously in earlier bushfires which makes you wonder as to how effective controlled burns actually are. I think people would be better off treating these fires as tsunamis rather than imagining that they can do much about them.
Stopping them when they are small seems to me the best policy, but that requires a different mindset than the Just-In-Time economic order we now have. Governments do not want to fund things on a just in case basis, at least in the West anyway as they don't want people and equipment sitting around idle. It offends the Protestant work ethic and you can't have that. I'm not sure if it is still the case but nothing was done about fires until they threatened property, so small fires were allowed to build up until they were huge and then threatened property but by that time almost nothing could be done about them.
Thanks for that Chris.
Picked this up from Ukrainska Pravda on the weekend. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/11/7493057/
Not sure how truthful it is, but it does point to the banderist ideology present in Ukraine.
Apparently the azov brigade thought it was similar to the Russian Brody offensive in Western Ukraine just after Barbarossa in 1941.
Actually a larger tank battle than Prokhorovka/ Kursk 1943.
On further research I found that the nazi defence of the counter attack was aided by Ukrainian nationalist guerrillas at the time.
So they compare their battle to the nazi operations in WW2.
Just explains their mindset and the endemic nationalist fanaticism they have involved the Western World in.
They like their bloody WW2 tactics as well and the Ukrainian system is clearly subserving its population through banderist media and education.
Pravda always gives out a lot of articles in which Ukrainian soldiers refer to the fighting as stopping the Russians in order to stop them invading Europe.
Yet our clown leaders just continue to blindly follow.
Dangerous times fronted by Z the actor/ comedian playing as corporal Adolf Hitler.
Our ancestors would be so proud.
I've seen plenty of evidence of Banderites in Ukraine over the years starting with the liberation of Mariupol when I was following Patrick Lancaster - who is in Kursk now. Yes - many seem to think Prokhorovka was the largest tanks battle but it was Brody. Thanks for that.
Joy, if you look at a map of uk election results for northern Ireland and Wales you will see the areas which are most affiliated to the UK in terms of voting patterns are the supplanted areas. In both countries the natives are to the interior. In Wales in particular you can see the Welsh language speaking areas still remain surrounded by the settlements Edward 1st put in place in the 13th century. Scotland is slightly different but the argument remains that Scotland might also be subject to colonialism. My point is that 3 out of 4 countries in Britain are probably subject to colonialism from London and London itself is probably alreasy a US outpost. Many in Scotland support the Russian speaking areas in Ukraine because they identify with their plight.
We lived in the Welsh Speaking heartland of Wales for years, including Dolgellau (Gwynedd). I played folk venues in the area but not in Dolgellau Folk Club because they wouldn't allow English. So I set up my own group in a pub. I did the same in Machynlleth (Montgomeryshire). In the hills to the south of Mach, Owen Glyndwr ambushed and beat the English with his style of guerilla warfare.
I left school 1991 and hadn't been taught any Scottish history despite being educated in Scotland. We werent even taught that there were Scottish Luddites, Reformists, Chartists. Everything was taught through the prism of English history. I was taught about German, French, Italian, Russian and English history but no Scottish, Irish and Welsh history.
Same here growing up in Wales. Our 'houses' were named after Welsh kings - e.g. Llewellyn Bren - but we were never taught anything about them.