Khan is a total waste of space. He’s a bed-blocker. A third term, for what? Hand over to someone who has some kind of vision for the city. Livingstone, who was a raging militant mentalist, had more v… (View Post)

I’m in Greenwich Village in an Australian cafe with a flat white and a copy of the new LRB which has a picture of St Paul’s on the cover. I’m fine with the Empire. (View Post)

Tourism spend, for one. And a increasing appetite for illiberal border measures, “just because”. (View Post)

Surely if anything it’s time for a broadly positive representation of the Empire. I suppose Ferguson did a decent enough job a decade or so ago. (View Post)

No, the British Empire was not comparable with Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan’s atrocities. Although even that article goes on to suggest that Elkins’s thesis is tendentious. (View Post)