Ok:
1.) Who is Brenda, please? And,
2.) What is roti roti?

I had to go to the article to be reminded of what OBE stood for; thanks for the link, not only for that info., but for what it said. Had it not been such a serious reason, I'd have laughed when he said he had tried so hard to get an audience with Tony Blair... I agree with him that I don't like the word/concept of empire, although slavery is not the (first) thing I think of. What bothers me is that you just don't go taking something that belongs to somebody else, just because you can. You just don't do that. It's wrong.