>> >> Jeremy Corbyn wants The Evils of the British Empire included in future.
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>> I cannot find the original document (Labour's Race and Faith Manifesto) but I'll be it's
>> more nuanced than Telegraph would have us believe. The Empire, it's doing and legacy are
>> hardly matters of burnished achievement.
But by the standards of the time, it was more or less the norm for colonial powers to behave. You dont need to rewrite it, or add a modern day slant, the morals in place at the time of reading does that for you.
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