Ifirst learned about CANZUK when I was in the final years of my doctoral program, sometime immediately after Brexit. A grouping promoted by some people who talk in lost accents in eccentric London circles, it was considered an oddity in academic and policy settings: a fringe, unachievable idea from empire nostalgics, American think-tankers, and revisionist historians, championed by the Brexiteer and economist Andrew Lilico, the American businessman James Bennett from Alexandria, and Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia. I quite liked it.
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