"The first thing you notice about Mumbai is the first thing you notice about every place the British once occupied, which is how much of themselves they left there. The United States spent over a decade and trillions of dollars in Iraq, and the only physical evidence that remains is a concrete embassy compound, some airstrips, and a sea of steel shipping containers. Maybe because they never considered that they might leave, the British built entire cities out of stone, with railways to connect them. And they did it with reliably good taste. Too often lost in the hand-wringing over the evils of colonialism is the aesthetic contribution of the British Empire. The Brits tended to colonize beautiful places and make them prettier. Bermuda, New Zealand, Fiji, Cape Townānotice a theme? Style wasnāt an ancillary benefit; it was part of the point. Behind every Gurkha regiment marched a battalion of interior designers."
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Tucker Carlson, āTucker Carlson's Diary: The Aesthetic Merits of British Colonialism" Spectator, March 3, 2016
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