Tag: British Empire
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Michael Palin in Nigeria
I loved this extraordinary, eye-opening travelogue with Palin at his decent, thoughtful and affable best. He is visibly horrified and guilt-stricken by what he learns about British involvement in the country, as one interviewee says, the worst thing that has ever happened to Nigeria. The interview with one of the kidnapped schoolchildren who managed to…
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Colonialism, the British Empire and the Buggery Act
This is a subject I really feel I should have known a great deal more about, but it is almost entirely new to me. The trigger was a chapter from A Short History of the World in 50 Lies by Natasha Tidd, Michel O’Mara Books Limited, 2023, a book I will come back to later. …