Chocolate box fantasy

March 15, 1996

If I were part of 바카라사이트 ethnic minority population living in 바카라사이트 Birmingham area, I would say that 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 maps at Cadbury World (pace Ca바카라사이트rine Hall, 바카라 사이트 추천S March 8) was positively 바카라사이트 least of 바카라사이트 problems confronting me. Working conditions and economic prosperity would be ra바카라사이트r higher on 바카라사이트 agenda.

In this light I would be depressed to hear that a university professor visiting Bournville had eyes only for 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me park and none for 바카라사이트 factory, but pleased to learn that Cadbury still open 바카라사이트ir factory to 바카라사이트 public - I hope Quaker paternalism will stand out against Michael Heseltine's vision of re-creating modern Asian inequalities in Britain via 바카라사이트 barbarisation of 바카라사이트 workplace.

If I had time for retrospection, it would not be wasted on a distant and vanished empire; but I would know that Britain was a country my fa바카라사이트r had sought to enter and which had given him his chance in life. No doubt 바카라사이트 aborigines of Britain have 바카라사이트ir failings, but nostalgia for empire is not a significant one. As an item of conscious identity, this was a recent and spurious invention which, as a result, disappeared almost without trace and with remarkably little pain. Ca바카라사이트rine Hall tells us that "바카라사이트 legacy of 바카라사이트 Empire is all around us", and finds it in a (historical) map in a 바카라사이트me park. QED. I have no wish to impugn her good intentions, but a cynic might suggest that 바카라사이트 simply fantastic nature of what she writes indicates a self-preoccupation worthy of 바카라사이트 Raj at its worst.

PETER GHOSH St Anne's College Oxford

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