Our national history cannot be national if, in the near future, one in three young adults feels their stories remain untold, if this country’s long
By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads in the Barbados
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one of the things
The OBE, CBE and MBE are among the ways Britain honours its citizens for their contribution to national life. I wish we had agreed on
It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped
I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by my
If you want someone to call you a traitor or accuse you of hating Britain, try suggesting that Britain is a normal nation or that
Aside from his other achievements, Winston Churchill wrote a six-volume, 1.9m-word account of the second world war and his role in winning it.
Racism is a belief system. It was assembled over centuries from many component parts – bits of biblical scripture, the propaganda of the slave-owning lobby
Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the end of Britain’s
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