Commonwealth symbolises UK’s preoccupation with Empire
15 Jul 2020
As a general rule of thumb, developments in the Commonwealth are only judged newsworthy if they have a royal angle. When, therefore, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle suggested last week that the organisation could usefully do some soul-searching about its own imperial origins, they were hardly the first people to have formulated that thought. Yet their remarks hit the front pages of a number of papers, and were met, predictably enough, by real or confected howls of outrage.