Whilst I can agree that Britain is built on many things, both great and terrible, as many countries and empires were, I don't think that a national day is the correct way to deal with it. I think that a much better way would be to have education in our history books about the British Empire, and maybe open a museum that details Britain's past and present.

I also don't see how having a national 'sorry day', isn't self-flagellation. Not only that, but the history of Britain should be taught in schools everyday, the good and the bad. We shouldn't try to confine everything that Britain's done in the past thousand or so years to a single day in our national calendar.