Colonialism
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?
A literary pilgrimage to a watery grave
Following in the footsteps of the author J.G. Farrell
Can British History be Saved?
Universities must fight attempts to “decolonise” the curriculum
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
