An elaborate map of the British Empire in 1886, marked in the traditional
colour of pink for imperial British dominions on maps
My irregular sleeping habits are not the only irregular habits I have but they are the most regular ones, so when last night I again (or still) listened to ABC Radio National's Tom Switzer's "Between the Lines", my brain cells lit up when he repeated the question Lord Sumption had asked in a lecture in Oxford: "Would the world as a whole be a better place if the Europeans had never settled in America or Australia?"
I don't think so and neither does Lord Sumption, and Robert Tombs, Professor Emeritus of French History at Cambridge University, even thinks there's a vast campaign to undermine and demoralise the West, bent on presenting its history as one of only shame, apology and reparations.
It's exactly the topic we should tune into as we head for the most divise ballot in Australia's history, so listen to Tom Switzer and Robert Tombs here and perhaps follow it up with reading this article in The Australian.
