Reform Might be About to Wipe Out the Tories
3 May 2024
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
4 May 2024
by Toby Young
Hot summers, long droughts, warm winters, violent storms, even a hurricane – the 1600s were no stranger to extreme weather. The solution proposed at the time was self-denial. Sound familiar?
Using the term 'geopolitics' conveys an air of world-weary cynicism that its users believe makes them look like they're carrying the weight of history on their shoulders. But it's an empty cliché, says J Sorel.
France is a nation divided by history, terrorism and a struggle for integration, writes Ed West in the Spectator. The ongoing ‘Intifada’ is a legacy of the brutal, violent end to France’s colonial empire.
The woke obsession with 'anti-racism' and 'facing up to' past involvement in slavery is really all about advancing a thinly-veiled revolutionary, anti-British agenda, says Cambridge historian Prof. Robert Tombs.
Nigel Biggar's book, which concludes the British Empire was not all bad, appears to have been cancelled by Bloomsbury due to “public feeling”. Is this another example of the woke takeover of publishing?
If you think you’re living through the worst of times today, think again — it’s usually like this, claims Tom McTague in Unherd.
As restitution movements ramp up demands for the return of Benin bronzes to Nigeria, despite their origin as the proceeds of a brutal slave trade, Mike Wells wonders whether some of Nigeria's pieces have gone 'missing'.
There's nothing inherently wrong with teaching Britain's history alongside the history of Europe and the world, provided it's not an excuse to poison schoolchildren against their country.
Attorney General Suella Braverman, whose parents are from Mauritius and Kenya, has slammed the woke Left for being "ashamed" of Britain's colonial past and said she was "proud" of the British Empire.
It's 40 years since the Falklands War, when Britain repelled an invasion by Argentina and reasserted its claim on the islands. Britain's claim remains just, and welcomed by islanders as the guarantee of their liberty.
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