‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past
June 2024
Germany is learning the lesson of history. Are we?
‘They didn’t dwell on it – they felt so many had suffered more’: Mishal Husain on her family history and the partition of India
‘Imperial nostalgia has become so extreme’: Sathnam Sanghera on the conflict surrounding colonial history
UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga
May 2024
I agree that Britain is a work in progress. But let’s be wary of distorting the past
So empire and the slave trade contributed little to Britain’s wealth? Pull the other one, Kemi Badenoch
Will Hutton
April 2024
I came to Britain from India, fulfilled a dream, and I say this: we’re a great country, but a work in progress
Mihir Bose
There is still a misrepresentation of the colonial past. Without the truth of what we have been, how can we move forward, asks author and broadcaster Mihir Bose
‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ
The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling story
Britain was wise to cleave to Europe as the empire began to disintegrate. It’s time to do it again
Will Hutton
This is the kind of Britain we must now strive to become
Conservatism’s biggest failure is the despair it has created about Britain’s future
Will Hutton
March 2024
Cotton Capital: ongoing series
Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary
Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows
February 2024
Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera review – the charge sheet against rule Britannia
In this ambitious sequel to Empireland, the journalist travels far and wide to examine the legacy of British imperialism, piecing together an important rebuttal of revisionist narratives
January 2024
Why I quit
I took my children to the Caribbean to live free from British racism, and have never looked back
Zoe Smith
Life in Grenada, the island my grandparents once left to work in the UK, is safe and caring, says Zoe Smith
December 2023
Never mind returning the Parthenon marbles – Britain wants this lot back!
It’s all very well Greece wanting its rightful treasure – but the Brits have left some pretty good artefacts lying around the planet. Surely it’s time they came home?
November 2023
British empire’s past emissions ‘double UK’s climate responsibility’
Data shows that including CO2 from countries once under colonial rule makes Britain one of world’s biggest historical emitters
October 2023
King Charles asked for ‘unequivocal apology’ by Kenya’s rights commission
King urged to offer apology while in Kenya for UK’s ‘brutal and inhuman treatment’ during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s
