Despite handing the colony back to China in 1997, Hong Kong remains a key hub in Britain’s offshore financial empire.
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Inside Singapore: From British colony to global finance nerve centre
Protected by British gunboats and Gurkhas, Singapore plays an outsized role in the world’s banking and oil system.
How Britain’s colonial cover-ups continued in Northern Ireland
A new book, Decades of Deceit, pierces the veil of official secrecy around one of the darkest episodes of the Troubles.
Empire’s echo: Why Britain cannot ignore Kashmir
As the former imperial power, Britain should not escape its historic responsibility for tensions between India and Pakistan.
Brunei: Britain’s neo-colonial oil hub near China
With its super-rich Sultan guarded by Gurkhas, Brunei is a relic of empire where Britain and Shell still wield enormous influence.
The Empire never died
The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.
The Chagos Islands were never Britain’s to give away
Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain ‘giving up sovereignty’ of illegally occupied land.
How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom
Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.
Gaza: Britain’s seventh genocide
Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Lords linked to slavery set to lose seats in parliament
Politicians whose ancestors were involved in the slave trade could soon be kicked out of the House of Lords.