East India Company
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
When young men headed East
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves
In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
Debunking myths of the Great Divergence
Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention
Allsopp’s: the rebirth of the original Burton IPA
The Allsopp family has revived the original Burton IPA which made its name and fortune more than a century ago
An incredible inventory
James Stevens Curl reveals how this new release provides amazing insight into the household of a well-heeled, cultured European in late eighteenth-century India
The anarchy lacks context
Dalrymple’s Anarchy says more about about a selling machine somewhat different to the East India Company
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
