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One contributing factor, imo, is that the British Empire's records and writings are all in English, which makes its inner workings more accessible than the innards of the German or Japanese colonial empires. That means it's easier to see more of what individual colonial bureaucrats and officers and such were thinking and saying. It's easier to find records of Brits from the time talking about they're doing, what they think of it, and whether they actually approve of what's going on or not. In turn, that often (but certainly not in all cases, there really were some tremendous bloodthirsty assholes) helps humanize the empire as a whole and makes it easier for someone so inclined to think "yes, colonialism and empires are bad as a rule, but the British weren't monsters", if not outright apologism.
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