Posted by Mike Field on June 24, 2009 at 12:39:45 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Absent posters (Trivia) posted by Peter Ceresole on June 23, 2009 at 20:04:14:
"What the Empire did was to divert Britain's mental resources. Fatally. "
Hh'mmmm.... As a 'colonial,' my take is that what the Empire really did was to pull Britain's chestnuts out of a European fire....