Sunday, November 25, 2012

Article: The empire strikes back | really, admirable chutzpah on part of imperialists to imply we want them back

Read my lips, boy, we don't want to touch you with a barge pole. Of course I speak for myself. The dynasty may have other ideas.

Bagehot

Some British Eurosceptics see the Commonwealth as an alternative to Europe. It isn’t

KAMALESH SHARMA, the Commonwealth’s secretary-general, reckons he has the “most spectacular office in London.” Through one window he views St James’s Palace, stolidly Tudor; through another the royal ...

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21567071-some-british-eurosceptics-see-commonwealth-alternative-europe-it-isnt-empire

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