Using a quickly paced, sketch style of pencil drawing, this rather entertainingly presents us with a potted history of the rise and fall of the British Empire. Using the traditional bulldog as the purveyor of the story, we start off relatively benignly as tea comes from the Indian Raj, then Africa provides great wealth. That munificence gradually turns to more malevolence, though, as religiosity and militarism kicks in and then gradually our fearlessly crowned pooch becomes more like a manicured lapdog poodle, and those who were previously the colonised end up doing some colonising of their own...