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The Politics of Empire
Empire has become a political football, punched around by left and right. It brings us in a sense no clearer to understanding this extraordinary phenomenon over thousands of years. I've been weaponized by a government who's basically quite deliberately thought it's a way of holding on to the Red Wall voters. There's absolutely no proof from where I'm standing that it's going to work.