‘Imperialism is not something Britain should boast about’

PERHAPS Kevin Kilburn would like to highlight those episodes of British imperialism he is particularly proud off (letters, July 1)?

Maybe the slave trade, or the forcible dispossession of many peoples from their lands?

Perhaps the official indifference to starvation during the Irish potato famine of the mid 1840s or the Amritsar massacre of April 1919 when at least 379 unarmed Indian civilians were killed when the army fired into the crowd?

Or he could pick the (recently admitted) torture of Kenyans in the 1950s?

One that takes some beating is declaring Australia an empty land when it had been continuously occupied for 40,000 + years?

Steve Kibble Rudyard