British Empire

The Empire Strikes Back….at Jameela Jamil!

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The actress and social media influencer Jameela Jamil recently aroused the wrath of British Empire nostalgists and apologists following her appearance on an alternative media podcast. Jameela riled the apologists for two reasons. Firstly, for claiming that Brexit “paved the way” for President Donald Trump’s electoral successes and secondly for stating that “British people are truly the most evil people in history” and substantiated this latter opinion by referring to the academic findings of two scholars who concluded that India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh) is owed £43 trillion in reparations for the British imperialist plundering of the country over a period of almost 200 years. “We colonised the world!” she exclaimed. Needless to say, Jameela’s millions of social media followers strongly imply her comments have a real world impact. Britain’s leading venerable and oldest right wing rag, the Spectator Magazine, edited by neo-con former Conservative politician Michael Gove, was clearly far from impressed and predictably rose to the occasion with all guns blazing with a three pronged attack on Jameela on its website within a space of no less than twenty four hours. The following unpacks each of the attacks and exposes the spectacular shortcomings of each assault.

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The United States’s only viable ‘off-ramp’ in West Asia is a rejection of British imperialist strategy

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American President Donald Trump and the Zionist colonial-genocide leader, Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal attempt at regime change in Iran has, so far, ended in complete failure. Actually, to say the entire criminal imperialist regime operation has hitherto ended in ignominious failure would be an understatement. The United States’s military bases and reputation in the region have been degraded as Iranian anti-imperialist state resisted two nuclear powered regimes attempting to lay waste to its nation and dignity. Unlike Netanyahu, Trump has also disappointed and enraged his domestic political base, the so-called Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement which had wanted no more foreign policy entanglements or ‘forever wars’ and for him to implement ‘America First’ policies. One of the earliest signs the United States-Zionist War on Iran was proving unwinnable was when the media began peddling the notion of an “off-ramp” to end the war. In effect, looking for a symbolic event which could be proudly marketed to the western populace as evidence the entire criminal operation was a success for the global Epsteinian-Zionist global ruling order even though the said objective of regime change was far from achieved. This essay aims to show that the origins of the ‘ramp’ or quagmire the United States is now entangled in has its roots in the United States taking its lead from its former imperial master, Britain and therefore the beginning of a viable and permanent “off-ramp” for the United States is an acknowledgement of this historical realty and a rejection of twentieth century British imperialist initiatives.

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Lawrence of Arabia or Lawrence the Swindler of Arabia?

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Exposing One of the Greatest Imperialist Myths of All Time

One of the greatest untold geopolitical stories of the modern era is how a former settler-colony that developed into a hegemonic superpower saved its former Imperial master from existential geopolitical disasters. How the United States provided salvation for Britain in two world wars and then inherited and maintained its former master’s imperialist global interests, especially in the Arabic-speaking region of west Asia aka “Middle East” during the twentieth century is a phenomenal story in itself. Alongside this secular salvation, the United States maintained the foundational geopolitical mythology about the British presence in the Arabic speaking world. This particular mythology is based around the imperial agent T. E. Lawrence (aka “Lawrence of Arabia”). He is considered to have led the Arabs to freedom from Ottoman Rule in the “Arab Revolt” during World War One. Lawrence chronicled his adventures in his classic book, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Steve Bannon the former advisor to President Donald Trump, is the latest to fall gullibly for this foundational mythology in an interview with world-renowned journalist Tucker Carlson. Bannon is an advocate of “America First”, a strategy which calls for the prioritisation of United States interests instead of forever foreign wars which are considered to mostly serve foreign governments. He recently drew an analogy of his interpretation of “America First” priorities with the “Arab Revolt” campaign during World War One. He told Carlson,

“I said to quote T E Lawrence from the Seven Pillars of Wisdom what they told him at the time when he showed up at Cairo’s military headquarters. They said, “Look, the Middle East is a sideshow to the main event, the Western Front”. And the Arab revolt is a sideshow to a sideshow. And I said, “The Middle East right now for us with everything geopolitically going on and the economic war with China…The Middle East is a sideshow and the Israel issue is a sideshow to a sideshow.”

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Refuting Montefiore’s Decolonisation Diatribe: Mandate Palestine Revisited

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Zionism, without a doubt, is a British fostered settler-colonialism in occupied Palestine

Western elites have been unnerved by the outpouring of grassroots support for the Palestinian people over the last seven weeks. As such, the British establishment historian and bestselling author, Simon Sebag Montefiore, was quick off the mark to denigrate these popular pro-Palestinian sentiments. Writing in the American journal “The Atlantic” he generously wrote a 4,500 word essay in an attempt to disabuse humane people of their misplaced sympathies in light of the Zionist genocidal response to the Palestinian resistance’s military advance on October 7th. The erudite diatribe, titled “The Decolonisation Narrative Is Dangerous and False” argues the reason there is so much support for the Palestinian cause among “Western academics, students, artists and activists” is because they are ‘toxically’ taught a distorted account of history by intellectuals who have embraced the ideology of “decolonisation” which he defines as “a toxic, historically nonsensical mix of Marxist theory, Soviet propaganda, and traditional anti-Semitism from the Middle Ages and the 19th century.”

Whether this hotchpotch definition of decolonisation is correct or even intelligible is beyond the scope of this essay but what I shall do is identify and unpack some of the dubious claims, sleight of hand and factual errors in Montefiore’s elegant invectiveness.

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