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Opening Our Eyes to the Cost of Empire: Why We Must Demand the Return of Nigeria’s Benin Bronzes
, 16 February 2022
Paddy Docherty explains how research for his book on the 1897 invasion of the Kingdom of Benin left him ashamed – an emotion he believes must be converted into action

The Far-Right Attack on Education From Poland to the UK and US
, 8 February 2022
The superintendent of Poland's Małopolska province is seeking to ban anti-racist, pro-human rights groups from working with students – but the attack on progressive education goes beyond Polish borders

The Colston Four: It is the Attorney General Who Seeks to Set a ‘Dangerous Precedent’
, 10 January 2022
The four defendants were found not guilty of criminal damage for removing the statue of the slave trader in Bristol – the rule of law in Britain will be significantly eroded, says Gareth Roberts

‘A Deeply Dangerous Power Grab by the Home Secretary’: Conservative Peer Calls for Plans to Strip Citizenship Without Warning to be Scrapped
, 6 January 2022
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi told peers that immigrants' fears that future generations would be treated like outsiders and second-class citizens are not unfounded

Plans to Strip Citizenship Without Notice Must Kickstart A Popular Movement Against the ‘Hostile Environment’
, 4 January 2022
Building opposition to the Government's controversial Nationality and Borders Bill must go beyond a focus on its clause on citizenship deprivation, says Liam Shrivastava

Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Ignores Demands for Inquiry into Peter Thiel’s Far-Right Influence
, 23 December 2021
Cambridge University fails to answer questions raised by staff and students after Byline Times’ revelation that racist pseudoscience is being promoted on campus under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’

From Conrad’s Kurtz to Enoch Powell: Conservatism Takes a Dark Turn to the Past
, 23 December 2021
Under Boris Johnson’s leadership, the Conservative Party has reversed half a century of attempts at post-imperial reform, and – regardless of whether the Prime Minister stays or goes – is now embarked on an ethno-nationalist, protectionist, statist project, with major institutional changes afoot, observe Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu

EXCLUSIVE Far-Right Echoes in Westminster: How Extremist Pressure on Migration Affects Government Policy
, 15 December 2021
In the first part of an exclusive investigation into the far-right response to the migrants who tragically drowned in the Channel, Paul Mason and Sian Norris look at how political pressure from such activists risks fuelling Government rhetoric and policy

The Nationality and Borders Bill is a Legacy of Empire
, 13 December 2021
We need to start calling British immigration policy and law for what it is: a form of post-colonial, racialised nation-building, says Dr Maria Norris

Lessons Still Not Learnt From the Windrush Scandal
, 30 November 2021
Four years on, only 5% of victims have received compensation, a training programme is still not up and running , while the promised returning resident visas are being denied

Colonial Amnesia: The Forgotten Victims of Transportation
, 11 November 2021
Katharine Quarmby explores why Britain’s story of transportation – the biggest forced migration in its history – has largely been buried

A War Christmas: What Exactly Are We Remembering?
, 11 November 2021
Otto English explores how Remembrance Sunday has been commercialised and weaponised to feed hollow national myths

The Today Programme and the War on the National Trust: An Episode in Shameful Journalism
, 4 November 2021
A discussion about wokeness, colonialism and the National Trust on the BBC’s flagship radio show came across like a public school reunion dinner, says Brian Cathcart

Lost At Sea: Untethered Britain in the Age of Emotion
, 1 November 2021
As international leaders gather in Glasgow for the COP26 summit, Hadley Coull and Chris Ogden consider Britain’s unmoored identity in a volatile world

Luftwaffle: Fantasy Nostalgia Betrays the Past, and the Present
, 11 October 2021

More Right-Wing Public Appointments As Two GB News Presenters Awarded Culture Roles
, 1 October 2021
Sam Bright reports on the latest in a string of Conservative allies appointed to public bodies

Rebalancing the History Books: Why Learning About Colonialism Matters
, 1 October 2021
To mark the start of Black History Month 2021, Almaz Ohene meets inspirational leaders in the younger generation fighting back against the Government’s divisive ‘culture war’

The Real Culture Divides Being Masked by the Government’s ‘Culture War’
, 21 September 2021
Nadine Dorries’ appointment as Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary is said to be turbo-charging the culture war – but a new report has found the real issue facing the cultural sector is structural inequality not ‘wokery’

Metrified – or Petrified? The Return of Imperial Measures is the Ghost of a Dead Cat
, 20 September 2021
Though it stands no chance of return, trading standards officer Pippa Musgrave explains why the nostalgia for imperial measures is a deflection from the problems of Brexit

Murdoch and Morgan: The Reunion From Hell
, 16 September 2021
Mic Wright unpicks the announcement of a new right-wing, Rupert Murdoch television station in the UK – and how it may have spotted a gap in the market following events at a certain beleaguered anti-woke news channel

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