Tag: British Empire
Although many Nazis were brought to book for their crimes, no British were, Declan Hayes writes.
“This is Queen Elizabeth’s legacy. A legacy of colonial violence and plunder. A legacy of racial segregation and institutionalized racism.”
Negative reaction to the queen’s passing was not limited to the Global South. Despite the historic reconciliation between Ireland and Britain this century, there were celebrations in Dublin — as a crowd singing “Lizzie’s in a Box” at a Celtic FC football match attests — and among the Irish diaspora.
The British Empire continues to exert a vast top-down influence over world affairs, Matthew Ehret writes.