Fyodor Lukyanov on how Europe has divided itself again Unlike Paris, London eventually realized that the loss of its colonial empire was inevitable. At a certain point, the British elite even tried to manage the process in a way that would make it less traumatic for the metropolis. The end of empire carried obvious economic and reputational costs. Yet it also produced a deeper political dilemma. With the empire dismantled, what remained was ‘Little England’,  a country with vast ambitions but