British Empire

A tale of corporate violence, corporate plunder, corporate lobbying, corporate state, corporate army — On 24 September 1599, while William Shakespeare was pondering over a draft of Hamlet, a few miles across Thames, a diverse group of merchants were gathering in a creeping building, to create a joint stock corporation named East India Company(EIC). Over the next few years, after several bruising encounters with…

How it came to be and why it’s valuable — Perhaps the greatest quiet success of the 20th century was the establishment of the Commonwealth of Nations, a family of nations which now has 54 members, with more seeking membership. The story of the Commonwealth starts where that of the British Empire tapers off. Whereas other empires fell, the British…

The Hong Kong protests have been compared to other anti-colonial protests like BLM, Free Palestine, and resistance to South African Apartheid. But most well-meaning progressives do not know about the US government’s direct involvement in funding and arming the Hong Kong protests, which are led by reactionaries that regularly glorify…

Above is a graphic picture depicting a notably common occurrence in the Congo Free State. Typically, the punishments were delivered to a Congolese person, by a Congolese person — the reason for which is driven by the European expansion and capitalization in Africa. Now, that can be a lot to…

Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard - Wikipedia Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 - 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard…en.wikipedia.org As a child of both South Asia and Nigeria (South Asian heritage, but born and, till I was a teenager, bred in Nigeria), I and many others like me often look at our Nigerian “world” and our South Asian “world”s as separate and only connected by our lives. Or many…