"Any moralizing remnant of the British Empire is gone; it has turned back to the pirate England of Sir Walter Raleigh." Come on - the British Empire was exactl

"Any moralizing remnant of the British Empire is gone; it has turned back to the pirate England of Sir Walter Raleigh." Come on - the British Empire was exactly the same under the hood as the Elizabethan Era, just wealthier and capable of far larger, lengthier, and more sophisticated acts of piracy. Fig leaves for the actions of the state change, but people are people in every age, and the goals of those with power ever remain the same.