John Prideaux

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643 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Tocqueville Road Trip: 1. Game of chance · 13 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, I was really struck by that.

The idea that it might the country might not make it to its three hundredth birthday is is alarming for me.

What happened with the British Empire?

Well, I think after the Second World War

The country was kind of on its knees and also took the position that

The parts that made up the British Empire should all have the opportunity

to determine their own futures.

They should all be able to decide for themselves if they wanted to be

Part of the British Empire where they wanted to be independent.

And so Britain's unusual, I think, in having given up an empire.

relatively peacefully.

And I think that was mainly a good thing.

Often when I do media interviews, I have a slightly out-of-body experience.

But this is surreal in a new way.

America is about to celebrate two hundred and fifty years since the Declaration of Independence.

And here I am, defending the idea of self-determination to a billionaire pal of the president.

now it feels like we might be m back in an age that's a bit more like the nineteenth century where countries are building empires and that feels a lot more like a return to a kind of imperial

age that Britain thought it had had left behind.

A similar thing happens when our conversation turns to another issue of the day.

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