British Empire
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
Are empires always evil?
Daniel Johnson says Spanish imperialism left a legacy defying simplistic analysis
Love, work and whimsy
MacDonald Gill’s poster for the Empire Marketing Board helped promote a nation at the height of its powers
Why does the BBC need to lie about Britain’s history?
Indian nationalist fantasies about the Bengal famine can’t be the point of the licence fee
Britain’s new East of Suez defence policy
Should the Royal Navy re-establish its presence in the Asia-Pacific region?
Where are all these Empire-loving teachers?
Revolting children are the product of a sixty year old progressive education system
Cui Bono
Imperial College’s Operation Historyhide is a go-go
Remembering Deepak Lal
To Lal there were no contradictions in defending classical liberalism, democracy, empire and faith in India
Should the police censor music?
Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence
Labour’s Indian problem
The local elections suggest British Indians are drifting away from the Left
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream
The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
Dress rehearsal
A 2015 comedy starring Volodymyr Zelensky is now showing on Channel 4
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Feminism has always been gender critical
Historical feminists knew better than anyone that biological sex is real
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor