![pith](https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pith.png)
Blame the Empire: The History War in Britain
The countries that comprise the “Anglosphere” (the USA and the old White Commonwealth) have been buffeted in recent years by a windy assault upon their historical origins by liberal-left agitators. At first they concentrated their outrage on the founding of Australia and the fate of the Aborigines, New Zealand and the Maoris, South Africa and the blacks, Canada and the Indians and, not least, the United States (black slaves and Indians). It was only a matter of time before they directed their glare towards the mother country, the United Kingdom. The latter had, of course, committed the original sin of founding these colonies from the seventeenth century onwards.
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States in 2020, the rag-tag and bobtail of the British liberal-left had its very own “MeToo” moment and sought to show solidarity with its American brothers. We witnessed the ritual “bending of the knee” by no less a personage than the leader of the…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins