Slavery
90 minutes a slave
Are re-enactments of the Underground Railroad culturally insensitive — or a tool to help America understand its history?
Burned by political expedience
Clandon Park remains a shell after it was gutted by fire six years ago. Now the National Trust is telling a one-sided story about its past
French soul searching
The search engine that tells you if you are descended from slave owners
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
BLM are right – Slavery is wrong
My manifesto to help Black Lives Matter beat slavery today
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
