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
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
