Empire
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Unstable foundations
The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque
Kill or be killed: the charming cut-throats of the wild frontier
Visiting the site of a long-forgotten siege in the Hindu Kush
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
