‘Collective delusion’: Why Britain can’t face up to the empire’s past

<p>Last week on the public holiday to mourn the Queen's death, there were protests against the monarchy in major cities across Australia. </p><p>The marches represented many who harbour a resentment towards the British crown and the unhealed wounds inflicted by the British Empire.</p><p>In the UK, some people feel the same way and not all Britons participated in the scenes of public grieving that have been seen around the world.</p><p>Today, the United Kingdom’s first Professor of Black Studies and author of The New Age of Empire, Kehinde Andrews, on what the mon...