The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.

Firemen clear up the aftermath of Loyalist rioting in County Down, 1920 - Sean Sexton/Getty Images Had J G Farrell not slipped off some rocks while fishing on the coast of County Cork in 1979, he ...

This work, as the title suggests, is about British Empire’s governors who came and left a mark of some kind before leaving ...

Alan Cumming has returned his OBE after 14 years because of the "toxicity" of the British Empire. The Scottish actor had received the award in 2009 for his activism on equal rights for the gay and ...

Britain’s expansion was the forefather of FDI and globalisation, but it wasn’t always welcomed, as this sketch from a 19th-century US magazine shows. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images). At its height ...

There is acute subversive delight in reading “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,” by Nigel Biggar, emeritus professor of theology at Oxford. The book’s manuscript was rejected in March 2021 by Bloomsbury ...

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...

¶ Coldly gave ear to Baron Beaverbrook. famed little Canadian-born “Hearst of England,” while he galloped for 90 minutes on his piebald political hobbyhorse: Free Trade plus High Tariff. The ...