A US security expert’s tongue-in-cheek claim about how the British Empire ceased to exist when colonized peoples ask for it to end, triggered online rebukes from those who saw it as an attempt to whitewash the UK’s dark history.
With allegations of tacit racism in the British royal family being the story of the week, many political commenters had a thing or two to say about the UK and its entrenched institutions. One of the more remarkable takes came from John Noonan, a US nuclear expert and security adviser to several Republican politicians, including Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.
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