Most people don’t want empires

An opinion poll taken in 1947, just before India and Pakistan became independent, found that three quarters of the British public did not know the difference between a dominion and a colony, and half could not name a single possession.  One man even nominated Lincolnshire as a possible colony……….This public  indifference to the intricacies of …

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Postscript to massacre

The World Health Organization and the Harvard Medical School have conducted a study, which found that 9.6% of Americans suffer from depression or bi-polar disorder, the highest of all the 14 nations surveyed.  This represents a higher level of depressed people than Lebanon (6.6%), currently  partly obliterated by Israel, Mexico (4.8%),where there are so few …

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