Dr David Pitt
Fifty years on: the battle to elect Britain’s first black MP
Dr David Pitt’s experience is now largely forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
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The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
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Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
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The memory wars
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What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The gifts of gentle density
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The errata of history
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The end of corporate silence
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Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall