The truth about Elizabeth’s empire

By artappraiser on Wed, 09/14/2022 - 1:59am |

"It's fanciful to suggest that the $600 billion stolen from Nigeria by Nigerian rulers since 1960 is down to colonialism. If that had been used to fund roads, schools, hospitals, universities and power systems, Nigeria would be in a different place today."https://t.co/kymwmwDrQc
— Dr Remi Adekoya (@RemiAdekoya1) September 13, 2022

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https://unherd.com/2022/09/we-need-to-talk-about-empire/

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Adekoya, a British citizen, had a Nigerian father and a Polish mother and spent part of his time growing up in Nigeria. Self describes as Teaches Politics @UniofYork | Author of Biracial Britain, in Best Books of 2021 by The Times, Evening Standard, New Statesman, ipaper. Here: http://bit.ly/3iJOyYl. He often uses Twitter to discuss Nigeria and Nigerian history with Nigerians.

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/14/2022 - 2:05am

Watch for 5 minutes, any 5 minutes, you'll come away convinced the people would never willingly give up their monarchy:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62902778

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/17/2022 - 10:34pm

emphasizes the reality of it not at all being the empire it once was

Bloody cheek! These Australian presenters haven't a clue who I am. pic.twitter.com/wQPjqCSI83
— Parody Prime Minister (@Parody_PM) September 19, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/19/2022 - 12:53pm

At least didn't claim it was a Spice Girl (or perhaps that was part of the anger)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/19/2022 - 5:51pm

"In a sense, both sets of critics are right. Charles is both a reactionary and a radical: a traditionalist who is extremely sceptical about capitalism — in short, a #postliberal prince and now King." @CapelLofft https://t.co/7hu2TuavkU
— Ryan Haecker (@RyanHaecker) September 20, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/20/2022 - 7:18pm

It was curious to see our current age as "mechanistic", a term from the 1790s but some accuracy today - Machine learning will solve all?s

Also, "Charles knows who Wendell Berry is?" counterculture in the 80s. If you think back to his MTV-like marriage, it must have been tough.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/21/2022 - 12:25am

I always thought of Charles as a fuddy duddy goofball and that surely after the Queen is gone the people would go: why are we hanging on to this? I see now I was wrong on the latter, he might be a fuddy duddy but he's their fuddy duddy and they're sticking to that.

The royal family is their identity, if they want to diss them is ok, but not something for outsiders to get. The rituals are their pride - rightly so, mho - with major tourist money incoming for surprisingly small outlay comparatively. They don't need the empire, they got the rituals.

We rejected the royal thing at the getgo, so we just replace it with glorifying a president & family or some other celeb. That part, it's human nature, not everybody's got that trait but the majority does.

Yeah the mechanistic thing is interesting...

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/21/2022 - 1:09pm

I thought I remembered Charles with a mohawked punk & safety pins, but this is the best i could find. Still, i respect his curiosity, fuddy-duddy it not

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/21/2022 - 2:18pm

The UK's finance minister is facing calls from within his own party to resign or be fired.

He has been in office since September 6.https://t.co/rieiKiLKcT
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) September 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 7:25pm

in case anyone got the wrong impression about who is currently in charge over there:

The King, a passionate environmental campaigner, has abandoned plans to attend next month’s Cop27 climate change summit after Liz Truss told him to stay awayhttps://t.co/IwxreHR9SW
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) October 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:00pm

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