Britain should not pay a penny in slavery reparations
The pressure on British taxpayers to start coughing up money to fund reparations for the historic enslavement of Africans by some of their ancestors is mounting. In February, the African…
The pressure on British taxpayers to start coughing up money to fund reparations for the historic enslavement of Africans by some of their ancestors is mounting. In February, the African…
The debate over how we teach the British Empire has become one of the most polarising arguments in modern British education. Some insist the empire was a force for progress…
I lament Jason Arday’s apparent suicide. I shake my head at the dreadful pity of it. Yes, he had been serially dishonest. And yes, the immediate responsibility lay with him:…
Ten years ago, the Brexit referendum tried and failed to settle Britain’s relationship with the EU. We are now in limbo, unable to decide what we want or why. That…
In 1947, as the British Empire was starting to unravel, Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria’s foremost independence leaders, wrote: ‘The conquest of one nation by another in an unprovoked act…