Colonialism
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
All Rhodes lead to ruin
Who was Cecil Rhodes, really?
Who’s afraid of Queen Victoria?
Attacks on monuments perpetuate the Victoria cult
Canadian statues matter
Monument vandalism is a cover for an all-out assault on the country itself
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
Colonialism goes woke!
Australia abolishes parental rights, double-masking is double-plus-good, and the woke praise British Imperialism
Opening up the British Museum
Honesty about how exhibits were acquired is a necessary first step in addressing our imperial past
The Portuguese at home and overseas
How has Portugal managed its imperial identity?
Where are all these Empire-loving teachers?
Revolting children are the product of a sixty year old progressive education system
If I had a hammer
Do we just need better iconoclasts?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
