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Originally Posted by ianch99
Peter Hitchens, a conservative author and journalist has a similar perspective to the above. He realises and is very honest about the decline of Britain's role in the world since Suez.
Here's a good recent article from him:
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co...res-about.html
He also comments on Mrs May attempts to deal with the poison chalice she was given, and here, I totally agree with him: |
That was an interesting article and mirrors something I have been thinking about for a while - the end of the British Empire. Are we still going through the end or is what is happening now something new?
There are lots of theories on why the empire ended but they seem to revolve around economic stresses and local uprisings. You could say the Boer War or the partition of Ireland was the beginning of the end of empire but the real death throes were (in my opinion) the rise of a wealthy and more internationalist USA.
think we are still on the arc of the end of the British Empire. What the end state will be, who knows?