We cannot love our country because it's morally corrupt say a bunch of "educationalists" in today's Times. I don't know about you, but that really made me choke on my cornflakes this morning!
According to the Institute of Education (part of the University of London), our role in the Second World War is nothing to be proud of. Our imperial past is a disgrace and our involvement in the slave trade a travesty. But hang on a minute. We went to war in 1939 to protect ourselves, other countries and minorities who were being butchered against an expansionist threat. We were among the first to abolish slavery. Our imperial past brought an expansion of knowledge, trade and prosperity across the globe and it's passing was done more peacefully and smoothly than that of just about any other empire in history. The problem with some people is that they really just hate all that our country is and stands for.
I can't help feeling that if they had worried about all these things in the mid 1700s, when the foundations of empire were laid down, our country wouldn't have amounted to a row of beans - although on the plus side we wouldn't now be rich enough to support the scribblings of bien pensant liberals like this lot.
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