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My parents were not like that at all, coming from a somewhat earlier generation. My mother tended to be a staunch conservative, politically. My father was an old-fashioned ‘liberal’. They didn’t talk much about politics, other than recurrent debates in which my mother would say that the British Empire had brought better medical care, better education and better infrastructure to the subject peoples, while my father would say that the colonial powers were just in it for the money. These discussions, though fairly strong, were not seriously acrimonious. I tended to keep a back seat, or be a small intermediary. But I suppose that the views they had were shaped by their own backgrounds. They did not seem inclined to question them.