Quote by Brian Kilmeade

“It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.”

— Partha Chatterjee

The colonies started to issue their own money and stopped using the Bank of England, which was what precipitated the war because you can't…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“Nevertheless, the idea that the bankrupt Europeans, who had already put the world through the wringer of two world wars in less than three…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Napoleon was convinced his system of sound money could defeat the vaporous credit creation of the British. He felt that people would reject a…

— Kelly Mitchell

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for…

— Ezra Stiles

“When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English…

— Christopher Hitchens

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

“They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself it had…

— Edward Luce

“What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely…

— Joseph Conrad

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted…

— Henry James

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson