Colonialism
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
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
