Les from Chorlton: you might as well say that any French person singing the Marseillaise is glorifying every single atrocity of the French revolution. They aren't, they are just singing their national anthem, and a grand song it is too.
    The precise sentiments of Rule Britannia arent all that imperialist, by the way. I think they merely extol the virtues of having a few boats deployed defensively round the island to keep marauding Foreigners out. Though I agree that Land of Hope of Glory does have some rather unfortunate lines in it that cannot be conveniently swept under the carpet.