Repugnant Outburst In New Zealand Parliament Proves ‘Native’ Cultures Should Be Assimilated

Repudiating Maori culture and fully assimilating the Maori into Western culture would have benefitted all parties and avoided the shameful impudence shown toward the rules that facilitate good governance.

Orwell in Burma, 'Flatulent' Travel Writing, and Banning the Word 'Plantation'

George Orwell (né Eric Blair) left England for Burma at age 19, a freshly minted graduate of Eton College, the poshest school in the British Empire. The year was 1922, and Orwell/Blair would remain in Burma until 1927, a member of the imperial police force. What little we know of his time there can be learned from his first novel, Burmese Days (1934), and two essays, "A Hanging" (1931) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936). His Burmese days have always carried with them an air of mystery and an absence of detail, which drove Paul Theroux—travel writer, essayist, novelist, sage—to set himself the task of imagining the young man's years in this eastern edge of the Raj. The result is Burma Sahib, a novel published earlier this year, that brings to life Orwell/Blair's time in Burma.

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No, Churchill Was Not the Villain

The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on the Tucker Carlson Show that Winston Churchill "was the chief villain of World War II," which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely.

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Imperial Quandary

The approach is imaginative: to present a snapshot of the British Empire a century ago, five years after its victory in the First World War, when its territory was most extensive and at what must have seemed its zenith. The result is a display of the Empire in all its ad hoc variety, from the […]

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How Churchill Charmed America

"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be," Winston Churchill famously told Parliament after the successful evacuation from Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. Great Britain, he vowed, would hold out against the Nazi menace, "if necessary for years, if necessary alone," until "in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

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The Upsides of Empire

These are thorny issues, and there has been a prevailing wind in recent decades in Britain as across the rest of the anglophone world to pretend that these are issues of great simplicity. Specifically there seems to have been a movement underway to imply firstly that the history of empire is solely the story of European empires, that the history of slavery is solely a history of European and North American slavery, and finally that all of these added together make the Western democracies not just as bad as anybody else in the world but actively worse.

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The British Empire Was A Force For Western Civilization (And That’s Why They Hate Her)

The queen was one of our final connections to a Western Civilization that believed in itself -- a civilization her critics wish to destroy.

India’s Amazing Vaccine Distribution Proves It’s An Excellent Partner To Balance China

Britain and India’s vaccine cooperation are part of the continuation of strengthening ties between America, Australia, Japan, India, and the United Kingdom.