United Kingdom government is still dreaming of empire

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It is clearly challenging for some former colonial powers to accept the reality that the days of their grandeur, might and international influence are over. The United Kingdom is an excellent example of this constant longing for a past era when its power stretched across the globe. "The Empire on which the sun never set". Ironically, the UK government continues to struggle with its voluntary purely self-inflicted European sunset, namely Brexit. Notwithstanding the seemingly endless Brexit saga, and despite its less than perfect handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government continues to spend time focusing on its former colony, Hong Kong. Perhaps it serves as a useful distraction from...

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