The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
However British you may be, I am more British still.
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.