Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist
Kojo Koram
Smoke out the foxholes.
Tag: empire
The Chief Rabbi Has Always Been a Servant of Empire
Joseph Finlay
Pro-Israel, pro-empire.
Negri in England: Remembering One of Communism’s Great Optimists
Craig Gent
The Italian Marxist has died aged 90.
The Four Neat Tricks Corporations Used to Take Over the World
Claire Provost & Matt Kennard
A step-by-step guide.
Why Should Chris Kaba’s Death Matter Less Than the Queen’s?
Kehinde Andrews
I think we all know why.
Queen Elizabeth Was Synonymous With Modern Britain – It May Unravel Under Her Successor
Aaron Bastani
Will a polity that has existed almost entirely under one monarch survive another?
The Jubilee Bank Holiday is the Worst Deal in the World
Moya Lothian-McLean
We’re being mugged off.
Putin’s Philosopher and the Global Far Right
Who is Aleksandr Dugin? Benjamin Teitelbaum introduces the spiritual leader of traditionalism, an idea that unites illiberal regimes around the world.
The British Empire Wasn’t Just About Race
Kojo Koram
It was a system of political and economic control.
How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
Veterans: Rightwing or Radical?
They are claimed from all sides and by all parties. But who are Britain’s ex-service personnel? What do they want? And what do their politics – whether conservative, liberal or socialist – tell us about Britain as a post-imperial country? Aaron Bastani speaks to Joe Glenton, journalist and author of ‘Veteranhood’.
Operation Legacy: How the British Elite Re-Wrote World History
Conservatives are obsessed with the idea that the left wants to erase Britain’s history. Yet that’s precisely what happened when its empire collapsed after 1945, as re-writing the past became a matter of state policy executed on an industrial scale. Here Aaron Bastani explains what was called ‘Operation Legacy’ and how those who care about […]
Dismantling Britain is One Thing. Dismantling Britishness is Another
Adam Ramsay
Tear it down and throw it in the harbour.
What the British Really Did to India
From famine to deindustrialisation and paying for the world’s largest army, there were no advantages in being part of the British Empire. Aaron Bastani on what the British really did to India.
Get Free
Annelien De Dijn asks us: what if everything you thought you knew about freedom was wrong?
The Tories Think Decolonising the Curriculum Means Censorship. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong
Ali Meghji
Decolonisation isn't "taking bits out" of history, as one minister recently put it. It's filling in the gaps.
