Absolutely it doesn't, Dick. The tone of the article is that it's not fair to criticise Britain because (and there are plenty of examples, including two major religions as well as other countries) others were worse, or slower to abolish, and it ignored the fact that we were ravaging the riches of other countries whilst getting their peoples to kneel down and pray with their eyes shut, then leaving those countries for dead a bit later on when they got awkward with us or got a bit too expensive to look after. Like I said, don't shout at me just because I'm very bad, because there are others who are very very bad. As for "And it almost broke us, and DID remake us," you'll get plenty of arguments about that. You had segregation right up to the time I was doing my science in secondary school, you have been the most bellicose nation on earth for many decades, you interfere in democracies and prop up despicable and murderous totalitarian regimes the world over, you have gun indulgence that kills tens of thousands of your citizens every year and you still endure outrages that lead to such movements as Black Lives Matter.

And you managed to drop nuclear bombs on thousands of children while you were playing God, you are one of the world's worst polluters and you somehow managed to elect Reagan, Dubya and Trump. I think you could use another remake.