Will Britain be a Bringapore or a satellite to Trumpistan?

And of course, the sun set several decades ago when the subcontinent got its independence, and then Africa and the Caribbean followed. The conceits of culture, traditional prejudices and nationalist ways of seeing oneself perhaps always outlast the march of material reality. The British Empire, in the main through the Regency and Victorian eras, cultivated the ideas of civilisational and moral superiority to the “heathen in his blindness (who) bows to wood and stone.”