I didnt know they had made a documentary 😆

This wilful ignorance, amplified by media lies and nationalist nostalgia, has enabled disaster capitalists to manipulate the ignorant, the arrogant, and the casually racist. God help us all—and I’m an atheist.

Opium: Trade with China created British wealth and Chinese addiction (Lovell, 2011)
Abolition Compensation: £17B to slaveowners (BBC, 2020)
The elite and aristocracy were the primary beneficiaries, embedding generational inequality that persists today (Bhambra, 2017).

The Chagos Islanders were forcibly removed for a US military base (Sand, 2009).
Economic Extraction:
India: £45 trillion drained (Patnaik, 2018)
Slave Trade: £500B–£1T generated (Williams, 1944)
Africa: Gold, oil, rubber, cotton, labour—all extracted with no reinvestment

In Rhodesia, Britain supported minority rule until 1980 (Meredith, 2002).
In Sudan, British-Egyptian rule created artificial unification, contributing to long-term civil war and genocide in Darfur (Burr & Collins, 2003).

In Iran, Britain led the 1953 coup against Mossadegh (Kinzer, 2003).
In Iraq, Britain created illegitimate monarchies and borders (Tripp, 2007).
The Balfour Declaration (1917) laid foundations for Palestinian displacement (Khalidi, 2020).
Africa: