Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed

Jeremy Black

DOUBTLESS KINDNESS LAY BEHIND Penguin’s absence of response to The Critic’s repeated requests for a review copy for me of this book. My request also failed, but I have gone out and bought a copy, and now understand. Possibly Penguin felt I might be upset to find no reference to my Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World (2019) in a book described as “a groundbreaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today”. But actually no. With its pretensions and authorial conceit, Sanghera’s book is actually rather a good laugh. He apparently is the word and the way for Britain which “cannot hope to have a productive future in the world without acknowledging what it did to the world in the first place”, a…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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