Empires Triremes of Claudius go speeding out of Gaul, charged with taming Albion, enigmatic queen, then civilise and

modernise with unity and roads, to leave a lasting legacy where Rome has been. Bold privateers of Devon, harnessing the wind: Buccaneers with cutlasses plunder Spanish pelf then bequeath the world a language, democracy and law, bonding scattered people in a vast Commonwealth. Bureaucrats of Brussels, inept scions of Rome, with bloated pay and pension cosseting a life of bumbledom and jargon in quangos that cascade unedifying orders, sowing seeds of strife.