Not to take away from the main thrust of the article, but may I point out that English and British are not synonyms even though they are being used interchangeably here? There were lots of British but not English people who were part of the empire and were every bit as guilty as the English were of atrocities large and small. As a non-English British person living in Portland it gets pretty tiring to have people look confused when they ask if I'm English and I say no, and when they ask where I'm from, I say the UK/Britain. Here's a helpful video on the differences:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10