Very good, but difficult at times, maybe just as a mid-week read being busy at work.
A kind of psycho-analysis of English culture and psychology, written by a Sikh writer and journalist brought up in Wolverhampton. A sense of his puzzlement about the stupidity and blindness of English culture, given that we mainly know what happened during the empire, pervades the book, but it is written without anger and with a strong sense of fairness, perhaps a product of his English education at WGS and then Cambridge.
Well researched and it does pose a huge number of challenging questions, particularly about current politicians glorification of Empireland’s achievements (you can forgive Victorian jingoism, but not from the mouths of current leaders who should know better).
Not as assertive as ‘Why we Kneel’ and maybe it should be, but I risk falling into racial stereotyping if I pursue this line! But a very good book, worth a re-read.
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