From Daily Mail
"The Empire is suffering yet another posthumous assault. Its assailants have some new ammunition, dredged from documents just released by the National Archives, which detail the nasty expedients employed occasionally when British power was challenged.
The enemies of the Empire imagine they have a treasure chest brim-full of hard evidence that will prove it was irredeemably wicked.
These files have already prompted predictable hand-wringing and breast-beating at the Guardian (where they made front page news) and the BBC (on which they featured heavily on Radio 4’s morning news) — two institutions where the prevailing wisdom is that Britain should be ashamed of its imperial past."
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