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David Gerecht's avatar

We seem to have no clue what bring British means today, apart from discussing the weather and having a nice cup of tea.

Through your work do you see a trend or facet that keeps popping up and you think 'thats unique to the British"?

Frederik Lønborg's avatar

Jimmy Carr once argued that empires do not truly collapse and disappear; instead, they evolve into new forms. He suggested that the Roman Empire lives on through the legal systems and courts of the West, while the British Empire persists through modern banking and financial institutions. How accurate is this claim?

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