And while I’m glad empire gave us our multiculturalism, our internationalism and a certain tradition of anti-racism and laid the foundations of the welfare state, and while I delight in the fact that our language, art and cuisine reflect our complex history, our imperial legacies and the ways we fail to see them are a burden. At a time of division and anxiety, when we are living through some of the greatest upheavals in modern history, we can progress only if we confront them.
