Colonialism
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
A Boy’s Own book of anti-colonialism
Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?
Bringing the Bacchae to the bush
Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
A gift to pimps and traffickers
South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state
Britain’s archipelago of shame
The UK’s treatment of Chagossians doesn’t amount to a crime against humanity
The Rosetta Stone belongs in London
It does not belong to modern Egypt
Learning of the Queen’s death in Delhi
An everyday patriotism
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
