In response to Niall McCrae: Lefties rage at academic who dares stand up for the Empire Julia Augusta wrote:
On a trip to India recently, our guide pointed to the bridge we were driving on, which was falling apart: ‘Indian bridge, ten-year guarantee’. Then he pointed to the bridge just down the river, still in good shape: ‘British bridge, 100-year guarantee’. I am a Chinese Filipina woman who grew up in the Philippines. My older relatives always told us that the Philippines was so much better under the Americans.
