John Foster / 16 Dec 2022
Fantasy Island
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll
It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)
British Empire
Josh White / 23 May 2022
Boris Johnson’s Ireland
British Colonialism Forever
Once again, the UK finds itself at a dilemma over Northern Ireland.(...)
Josh White / 19 Oct 2020
The Singapore Option
Post-Colonial Brexit
‘Singapore on the Thames.’ Unless you’ve been under a rock, such fantasies of UK 2.0 have been a constant throughout Brexit.(...)
Josh White / 10 Jun 2020
British History Matters
Racism is Always Wrong
It’s not every day that a statue of a human trafficker is torn down by an angry crowd. Perhaps that’s because there aren’t many statues to human traffickers. (...)
Ari Paul / 29 Mar 2019
The Border War
British Colonialism 2.0
It should have been today. It might be in April. It could even be in May.(...)