Only Britain in the twenty-first century seems to think that it’s necessary, probably to expiate our historical guilt of course for accumulating land in the past in the period of empire, only we seem to think that our principal job is to give away the family silver, sell it off or pay people to take it away from us, in order that we set this putative example to the rest of the world. An example which absolutely nobody is going to follow. From today’s @spectator1828 Edition. Watch the full conver