We should respect those British subjects who built new lives in this country without reducing their story to a progressive fairy-tale.
Why not conceive of the state as essentially a regulator and provider of services, dressed up in such odds and ends of holy writ as pass the smell test – one tax base under the NHS and the Equality Act?
Giving up the literal jewel in the Queen Mother’s crown would be a small price to pay for stronger links with this rising power.
Positive ideas of empire which in recent decades almost no one dared to express are emerging once more into public discourse.
No nation has a spotless record, but attempts to focus on one side of history will continue to divide the country.
From the short-lived National Party to the astonishing success of the Empire Free Trade Crusade, the 20th Century saw plenty of attempted revolts on the right.
The new Home Secretary wants to uphold traditional British means of maintaining liberty and the rule of law.
The Attorney General on judges, Asian values, Spartans, the Good Law Project, Lord Frost – and why the Tories should revive the torch logo.
Undoubtedly, Britain played a terrible part in the 17th and 18th-century history of slavery. Its act later ensured sweeping political and societal change.
The consequences for the international order have been debated for decades, but, in contrast, little attention has been paid to this area.
It is a litany of uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. Obsessing over these does little to spur progress.
If the BBC wants to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should commission this Oxford ethicist to tell the truth about Britain’s past.
Joining the UK would end its status as a dependant territory, and so finally nullify Spanish (and Argentine) arguments based on the UN definition of decolonisation.