Holy shit this tweet from Uju Anya on Herschel Walker

[Jack the Greater]

35. Yes, I agree. It is a hateful remark against another human being

... and reveals much about the individual who made it. But besides that, it was under Queen Elizabeth that the UK divested itself of its colonies.

"...while other European powers such as France and Portugal waged costly and unsuccessful wars to keep their empires intact, Britain generally adopted a policy of peaceful disengagement from its colonies..." ~Judith Brown - The Twentieth Century, The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume IV 1998