It is too tiresome to attempt a rebuttal of your grotesque opinions by comments, Glennb, so I intend to deal with them in a separate post. I shall of course inform you when I intend to post it. A ubiquitous theme in your posts is an unreasoning hatred of colonialism; as if it were an umitigated evil, from which no possible benefits might derive. Colonising other peoples’ lands is indeed repugnant; but the cardinal sin of the bad historian – or one with little or no knowledge of history – is to... Sign in to see full entry.