The imperialist murals in Britain's Foreign Office represent a legacy that must be dismantled | David Wearing

From Churchill’s bombing of Iraq to the ‘war on terror’, a righteous self-image has always cloaked shameful self-interestAs the Black Lives Matter movement forces Britain to confront its imperial history, the shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, has highlighted a set of murals on display in the Foreign Office (FCO). The murals depict, in the words of American historian Alexander Mirkovic, “the racial world” of the British empire, with the virile, heroic Anglo-Saxon