Blame the Empire: The History War in Britain

The countries that comprise the “Anglosphere” (the USA and the old White Commonwealth) have been buffeted in recent years by a windy assault upon their historical origins by liberal-left agitators. At first they concentrated their outrage on the founding of Australia and the fate of the Aborigines, New Zealand and the Maoris, South Africa and the blacks, Canada and the Indians and, not least, the United States (black slaves and Indians). It was only a matter of time before they directed their glare towards the mother country, the United Kingdom. The latter had, of course, committed the original sin of founding these colonies from the seventeenth century onwards.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States in 2020, the rag-tag and bobtail of the British liberal-left had its very own “MeToo” moment and sought to show solidarity with its American brothers. We witnessed the ritual “bending of the knee” by no less a personage than the leader of the…