Gulliver Foyle
Penultimate Amazing
In Australia and to a lesser extent in New Zealand, I'd probably agree; less so in other places - India, Malaya (as was), Nigeria, Ghana. Belgium was particularly bad as a colonial power in Africa, for example, Germany too. France was also mixed depending on the location.
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You should read up on English colonialism in India, how many millions it killed and how many centuries it set the sub-continent back culturally, economically and politically. The east India company were the worst, most rapacious and most evil corporation in history and incredibly direct rule was worse.
