Tag: #Class & Empire

UK Monarchy & UK Government Clinging to Power by Use of Propaganda and Failing   Context - Hanging on to the Empire and Colonial Past   This quote:- “I think he would be very proud of the continuing legacy of Britain in those Places around the world, and particularly I think he would be amazed at India, the world’s largest democracy – a stark contrast, of course, with other less fortunate countries that haven’t had the benefit of British rule.  If I can say this on the record – why not? It’s true, it’s true”. Boris Johnson of Winston Churchill, on whom he had just finished writing a book   “I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes.  It would spread a lively terror” I hate Indians. They are beastly people with a beastly religion” Winston Churchill There is a section in the book where Akala was on a school visit to the National Portrait Gallery, and there is a page or so about what happened when a teacher...