Navigating Empire
Re-visiting Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld: Mile End Institute Hennessy Lecture On Wednesday I had the privilege of attending the Mile End Institute’s Hennessy lecture with Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireworld: How British Imperialism has Shaped the Globe, and Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. A brief introduction…
Struggling Students, Pampered Pensioners
I’ve written before that the politics of the far right, or, more accurately, the politics of hate, is easy. It is easy to hate, rather than endeavour to possess all the facts, to understand, to debate, to reason…to listen. It…
The End of Hereditary Peers and the Future of the House of Lords
Well, they listened. Almost a month ago I wrote that the House of Lords need not be replaced but revamped to be “fit for the new age we are tumbling into”. Just days ago the ministers introduced a bill to finally rid the upper chamber of the 92 remaining…