Unpopular opinion, in the U.K. at least:

When the American Revolution was won, it should have spread back to the U.K., and we should have dragged royalty and aristocracy out of their palaces into the streets and hung them from the nearest tree for mass corruption at the detriment of the country.

Only 3% benefited from empire. The rest of us mined their coal, farmed their food, worked from childhood to early graves in their factories or died of diseases garrisoning their possessions abroad.

Look at me writing a political post. Never thought I’d see the day.