What is to be done about the wilful refusal of Western and Third World intellectuals to recognise the positive legacies of colonialism? As professor and author Bruce Gilley observes the 'intellectual turn will require a massive Enlightenment” which can only really come from ... proper research rather than ideological bias'

As Nigel Biggar points out in Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, the trouble with 'the anti-colonialists’ equating Britain with slavery and demanding 'cultural decolonisation’ is that it requires amnesia about everything that has happened since 1787. High on the list of things they ignore is that the crusade for the abolition of slavery was very popular in Britain from the late eighteenth century onwards

The desire of the custodians of the UK’s heritage to rid themselves of the inconvenient artefacts of British history, especially from the age of empire, has been accompanied by a more sinister campaign to dictate how the British people should think about their past. This is being done in a number of underhand ways

Winston Churchill had no doubt of the importance of studying […]