Empire
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
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
The “Scramble for Africa”
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
Sherlock Holmes plays the white man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too