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)

Sorry, what is closing the border to Chinese travellers supposed to achieve? Don’t get me wrong, I was all in favour back in February 2020 when we had no idea what the fuck what was happening. But it… (View Post)

Hold onto nurse for something worse, eh? Nope. That hasn’t worked. Turns out nurse has Munchausen’s syndrome. (View Post)

I disagree with the implicit equivalence here (as I read it). Yes, capitalism (and globalisation) has done its thing and given us smartphones and low-cost airlines. But a previous generation got peni… (View Post)