Colonialism
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
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific