Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.