[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Guinness

If he's looking for a bogeyman he's looking at the wrong empire..

A moral audit of the British empire | openDemocracy

Deny the British empire's crimes? No, we ignore them | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

That Good Old British Empire? « Lila Rajiva: The Mind-Body Politic

Using Gordons own words..little to praise or admire

The past is a graveyard where we bury our mistakes.

I hate that people in power feel the need to apologise for things over which they had no control....you can only apologise for the things which you were involved in, otherwise it makes the apology nothing more than the weasel words we hear politicians utter today...they are meaningless, and not only that, they dilute the power of all apologies in the future....those made from the heart and with sincere contrition.

All countries have been responsible for things which we now consider to be bad...or amoral....and do you think that we learn anything from those mistakes...of course we don't! Future generations will look back(with the benefit of hindsight - which we all know is 20/20) and criticise happenings of today...they will wonder how our supposed civilzation could be so crass.....but I do hope they won't be making apologies for it.