Rule, Britannia?
4 min readAug 25, 2020
Can anyone sing this song whilst recognising the history of the British Empire?
The row over the jingoistic anthem ‘Rule, Britannia!’ appears wholly to be a construction of the British right-wing press, but one that the Prime Minister saw to fit to ‘personally intervene’ — when he didn’t think that the A-level scandal (the biggest government education failure in decades) warranted the same level of attention. It serves as a…
