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| 22485ed | In a double-page spread in 1999, the Daily Mail ran a large photo of fake Nazis from 'Allo 'Allo! with a think-piece headlined 'In the week that Germany kept the old feud alive by illegally banning British beef: Why it's a good thing for us to be beastly to the Germans.' It was written, not by some hack but by the distinguished historian Niall Ferguson. He found a way to argue both that the 'war' with Germany was entirely phoney and that it.. | Fintan O'Toole | ||
| 07132a4 | This is one possible answer to the deflationary sensation so perfectly captured in a question mark in Jane Gardam's novel of the dissolution of the Raj, Old Filth: 'When empires end, there's often a dazzling finale - then--?'31 Well, perhaps empires don't quite end when you think they do. Perhaps they have a final moment of zombie existence. This may be the last stage of imperialism - having appropriated everything else from its colonies, t.. | Fintan O'Toole |