Heirs of Empire: Part 1
All those who live in the United Kingdom today are, to one degree or another, heirs of the British empire. Whether you are native born with a family history going back 1000 years or more, or a first generation immigrant, if you are living in the UK now you are enjoying the benefits of the empire. Indeed, if you live in the any of the countries over which the empire ruled you are also an heir of the empire. You may think the legacy mixed but you are an inheritor and in many ways a beneficiary still. The British empire shaped the modern world:
Trying to bring sense, perspective and understanding into the cascading events of the world as social and political tides push and pull us ever further from our mooring.