British Empire
Rhodes still stands
Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish
What Magdalen College students get wrong
It is bizarre in the extreme to focus criticism of empire on the Crown
An incredible inventory
James Stevens Curl reveals how this new release provides amazing insight into the household of a well-heeled, cultured European in late eighteenth-century India
Kipling and Sinatra in Burma
The words Kipling chose should not be cancelled even if Frank Sinatra had a bit too much fun with them
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?
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
