The British Museum's continuing posturing as a "museum of the world," stuffed full of objects taken with no moral authority, is a conceit that has no place in today's post-imperial world.
The Palace of Westminster is collapsing in many ways, none more so than under the weight of time and tradition, privilege and patronage, including Britain's post-imperial struggle to remain a world power.
There were many concerns raised by the British public in the 2016 EU referendum, such as the state of our manufacturing and our industrial towns, and a feeling that our politicians had let us down and had lost the plot in our post-imperial journey.
The debacle of Britain's military intervention in 1956 in Egypt to try to retain control of the Suez Canal should have taught us that we were living in a new post-imperial age.
But the days of the Empire are long gone and the whimsical, post-imperial delusions of the hard Brexiteers do not survive the first contact with the hard reality of what lies in store in the event of the no-deal scenario that some of them appear to crave.
Contributors to Vamping the Stage situate their work within the debates on women in the colonial and post-imperial cultural landscape punctuated by revolution, Islamization, and capitalist development, paying careful attention to the role of agency in a public terrain keen to co-opt and exploit the power of the female voice.
These figures mock the plea made by Nigel Biggar, Oxford's regius professor of moral and pastoral theology and canon of Christ Church, that we "moderate our post-imperial guilt".
Highlighted that Russian post-imperial chauvinism attacked Ukraine and three year long war has resulted in the deaths of 10,000 people, the occupation of 7% Ukrainian territory and seizure, destruction or theft of 20 % of the Ukrainian economy was a big challenge for his country.