Rightwing identity politics that reject multiculturalism lie behind this attempt to relativise colonial excesses and rebut criticism of empire
– is a similar recent example of this wistful invocation of a past that never was to guide the project to make Boris Johnson’s Britain great again. In 2019, empire nostalgia veers erratically between delusions of past grandeur and persecution complex: Britain is at the same time a global power and a heroic underdog, single-handedly holding off the barbarians, whether Zulus, Nazis, immigrants or the EU.
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