10:25am Wednesday 8th July 2009
HUGH Pender has a point in regards to honours such as Order and Member of the British Empire being outdated in the absence of a British Empire, (HAS, July 2).
However, his point that our empire was “far from what it is in school history books” would depend on what he himself has read and whether he is judging history by the morals of today.
British history has been corrupted by political interference, according to independent think-tank Civitas, and I would not be surprised if the apologists running an education system once the envy of the world dropped British history from the syllabus altogether.
Their agenda seems to be eroding any concept of Britishness and distorting the past to portray Britain as a nation of war-mongering, racist tyrants, whose only contribution to the world was exploitation and slavery.
They systematically denigrate our achievements and ignore the enlightenment, advancement, prosperity, rule of law, democracy and liberty we brought to much of the world.
Britain’s part in bringing an end to the evil slave trade, for example, is an achievement we should celebrate positively rather than being baneful or feeling ashamed of our history and its heroes.
Des More, Darlington
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