Airstrip One

Little response to my column on withdrawing from the last vestiges of Empire. So far, in fact, it's been limited to one response, which I reproduce in full:

If you're actually British, I'll eat my laptop

There you are, 100% negative feedback. (I doubt I'll get a gastronomic report).

Indeed what is funny is the idea that to hold certain views you must not have certain genes, or must not have been born at a certain latitude. Whatever happened to the idea of thinking things through one's self?