Jim, Macmillan's book does not even address the facts I have put forward, but I have quoted her unequivocally supporting my views in other work.

Historians of all backgrounds do, so your claim about that is proved wrong.
You can find no historian of any background who still holds those old discredited views you cling to!

Sure, but nothing major happened during or as a result of this.

It was still escalating, but in August 1914 there came events that united the whole nation, and the strikes and unrest came to an end.

It is racist to ascribe characteristics to a population, but if you claim that it was some inadequacy in British people that led them to make a stand against a cruel aggressor, I will not argue.

My case is just that they did, and the historians' research and evidence proves me right.