Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist with extensive exposure and experience in global political economic affairs. He was educated at the London School of Economics, and ...

From the very beginning, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign was deeply connected to Britain’s global empire and the long and bloody processes of decolonisation. Indeed, she became Queen while on a royal visit ...

In the UK the Queen’s official title is: Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of ...

Calder Walton, Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire, (New York: The Overlook Press, 2013). The period of British decolonization and America’s present ...

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 ...

Labour says it is committed to other ‘overseas territories’, but why? These colonial-era dreams are costing the country dear The British empire still sends governments mad. Labour’s Foreign Office ...

For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...

The historic political agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and Mauritius on exercising sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, which Britain considers ...

When Zainul Abedin left Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1947, as India and Pakistan negotiated a partition-ridden freedom from the British Empire, he was one of the city's most acclaimed artists. By the ...