Colonialism and Slavery
The rise and fall of slavery in the Caribbean
Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change