{"id":39331,"date":"2025-04-21T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/emboldened-by-trump-the-liberal-uk-is-giving-free-rein-to-its-colonial-impulses-kenneth-mohammed\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:55:09","slug":"emboldened-by-trump-the-liberal-uk-is-giving-free-rein-to-its-colonial-impulses-kenneth-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/emboldened-by-trump-the-liberal-uk-is-giving-free-rein-to-its-colonial-impulses-kenneth-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Emboldened by Trump, the \u2018liberal\u2019 UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with fading empires\u2019 petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect<\/p>\n<p>As Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US \u2013 dismantling the rule of law trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world \u2013 his ideology is now being eagerly imitated not just by the expected rogues of global politics, but by supposed bastions of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>These democracies now wear only a mask of civility over that old colonial impulses: control, divide, exploit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/apr\/21\/caribbean-trump-democracy-colonialism-liberal-uk-immigration-us-cuba-commonwealth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with fading empires\u2019 petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect As Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US \u2013 dismantling the rule of law trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world \u2013 his ideology &#8230; <a title=\"Emboldened by Trump, the \u2018liberal\u2019 UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/emboldened-by-trump-the-liberal-uk-is-giving-free-rein-to-its-colonial-impulses-kenneth-mohammed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Emboldened by Trump, the \u2018liberal\u2019 UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}