Prospect of violence is all too real
It is not necessary to have graduated from a school, or indeed a family, that advanced the view that Albion is always perfidious to recognise that the negative legacy of the British Empire remains a real and destructive force in today’s world. The evidence is unfortunately widespread and persistent.
It may be unnecessary to argue that that legacy is not particularly British in character but rather the fallout from one of history’s inevitable imperial implosions. Just as there were consequences for millions when the Roman, Hapsburg, or Soviet empires collapsed, the collateral damage of the unreddening of the atlas was, and remains, seismic.
