Don't apologize about the British Empire for me.
My view is they should have kept it, and fought the Americans to do it. But Britain itself was shot through with its own fatal liberalism.
Look, now, at what the forced leftist American alternative has been, since WWII.
Friday, July 3, 2020
JULY 4 1776 THE FIRST PEOPLE TO REVOLT WHITE COLONISTS CLAIMED ENSLAVEMENT
"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the European Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
Sir Michael Howard, Lessons Of History, "1945--End of an Era?"
See The 1619 Project
See also, now, Britain's Colonial Countryside Project in conjunction with the National Trust:
Colonial Countryside, a youth-led history and creative writing project between 60 primary schools and the National Trust
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