EMPIRELAND

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actua lly rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how our past is everywhere: from how we live to how we think, from the foundation of the NHS to the nature of our racism, from our distrust of intel lectuals in public life to the exceptionalism that imbued the campaign for Brexit and the government's early response to the Covid c risis. An...[Read more]