Interesting article.
What is the Commonwealth if not the British Empire 2.0?
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...lth-british-empire-britain-black-brown-people
An excerpt:
"All countries use diplomacy to lobby in their own interests – there is nothing wrong with that. In Britain’s case, the Commonwealth has served very nicely to advocate its particular shopping list: liberalised, extractor-friendly regimes, low corporate tax rates, and a creative system of tax havens predominantly located in – you guessed it – other Commonwealth countries.
As a result, Africa loses £30bn more each year than it receives in aid, loans and remittances."
I never knew much about the Commonwealth, other than that I always felt the performances of the Queen and Harry (dance with African tribes, kiss an African kid) to be cringe-worthy and patronizing.
And that many Indians' British sense of superiority (cuz Commonwealth and Hindu) towards the rest of us often irks me.
What is the Commonwealth if not the British Empire 2.0?
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...lth-british-empire-britain-black-brown-people
An excerpt:
"All countries use diplomacy to lobby in their own interests – there is nothing wrong with that. In Britain’s case, the Commonwealth has served very nicely to advocate its particular shopping list: liberalised, extractor-friendly regimes, low corporate tax rates, and a creative system of tax havens predominantly located in – you guessed it – other Commonwealth countries.
As a result, Africa loses £30bn more each year than it receives in aid, loans and remittances."
I never knew much about the Commonwealth, other than that I always felt the performances of the Queen and Harry (dance with African tribes, kiss an African kid) to be cringe-worthy and patronizing.
And that many Indians' British sense of superiority (cuz Commonwealth and Hindu) towards the rest of us often irks me.
