Britain should stop trying to pretend that its empire was benevolent
Time for this myth to be exploded – empire brought with it slavery, exploitation, racism and kleptocracy.
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Brexit causes anguish on Gibraltar
With Spain spying an opportunity and major questions about economic stability, Brexit is causing sleepless nights on the Rock.
Stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too – but they thought it only afflicted ‘brain‑workers’
As early as the 1860s the twin diseases of modernity – overwork and sleeplessness – became the focus of cultural anxieties.
Climate change could wreck traditional sheep farming in Wales
Recent summers have offered a taste of things to come for Welsh farmers.
Host City Glasgow: signs of slavery and the imperial past are never far away
The “second city of empire” was how this year’s host of the Commonwealth Games used to be well known. Glasgow’s imperial past is hinted at by names littered throughout the city centre, in geographic pointers…
A century on, the Balfour Declaration still shapes Palestinians’ everyday lives
With just 67 words, a British foreign secretary kicked off a hundred years of conflict and displacement.
How the NHS’s original vision to design healthier hospitals fell into disrepair
Today’s reports of crumbling, dilapidated and dangerous hospital buildings are a far cry from the design ambitions extolled by early NHS architects and planners.
Forests v farmland: what the world would look like if we allocated all our land in the optimal way
A new study suggests a radical rejigging of where food is grown. But is such a world even possible?
Whoever wins, the Labour Party’s ‘entryism’ panic will come back to bite it
Chaos over a purported leftist influx is roiling the Labour party – but the worst effects are yet to come.
Suez canal: what the ‘ditch’ meant to the British empire in the 19th century
Britain’s preoccupation with the canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade.
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