No way forward is provided by the Stop the War Coalition, the Corbynite Your Party or the Greens, whose response underscores ...

Though I’m no monarchist, I can’t help but admire Queen Elizabeth II. The old girl had a job to do, and she’s been doing it — with discipline and dignity — for 70 years. So, I was at least a little ...

This is the report delivered by Tom Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally. To ...

There are few things Republicans love more than harkening back to the American Revolution and 1776 — whether it’s in defense of their right to own high-powered assault rifles, to storm the Capitol in ...

In 1879 began the disastrous ‘War of the Pacific’, the Chilean army invaded Bolivia’s ‘Litoral’ department, leaving the poorest nation in South America landlocked. It is thought up to 18,000 Bolivians ...

Seventy-four years ago, on 17 August 1947, two lines were etched on the world map, splitting the Indian states of Punjab and Bengal roughly in half. The border in Punjab delineated the new country of ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

This book begins with an overenthusiastic and unconvincing effort to distinguish itself from previous works of imperial history. Yet readers should persevere, because Burton’s basic interpretation of ...

Louis is arguably the preeminent scholar in the field of British imperial history -- and is surely so among those who write on British imperial ventures in the Middle East. Somewhat more than half of ...

This article contains mild spoilers for the first five episodes of Around The World in 80 Days. While Jules Vernes’ classic novel Around The World In 80 Days has long been celebrated for its depiction ...