Right, birthday party, the big 30th.

Although, is it more like 40th?

Hmm, best go generic.

Something fizzy?

Oh, along with everyone else.

Flowers? Symbolic of blooming into a new era.

Ugh.

No, come on.

Something more exciting.

Something like.

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Three minutes after 10. It's all about the we, isn't it?

It's all about the we of it. How do you define the we? Because we did it, it can't be that bad.

And by we, you may not mean you specifically, but the tribe, the group, the social stratum with which

you identify. It's an odd thing to bring into the conversation so early, but when you hear people

trying to almost defend slavery or defend some of the

worst excesses of the British Empire, it's all about the we. It's the idea that because

we did it, it can't be that bad, it can't be that awful. You can't use the word Holocaust

to describe what the British did in Africa and India and elsewhere, because we're British, God damn it. And that sort of

word should be reserved for Johnny Foreigner, the Germans, for example, the Nazis. And I think

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