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Who owes whom? Britain’s empire legacy fuels new reparations battle

Britain’s reparations debate has taken a sharper turn after former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman argued that Britain’s former colonies should repay the United Kingdom for the infrastructure, ...

Britain must stop whitewashing the empire

Britain has spent decades asking the world to admire its empire while refusing to acknowledge its damage. That is the oldest ...

Barbados PM rejects Braverman’s ‘asinine’ claim that ex-colonies should repay UK

Mia Mottley said the Caribbean did not ‘owe Britain for slavery, for colonial extraction, or for laws that treated African ...
insider.si.edu

The British Empire before the American Revolution

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...
CNN

The homophobic legacy of the British Empire

A wave of joy and relief swept through India’s LGBT community last week following a landmark decision by the country’s Supreme Court to legalize consensual gay sex. The announcement that Section 377, ...
Los Angeles Times

Back Story: India’s gay sex ban was a relic of the British Empire — but it’s still in place in dozens of ex-colonies

Reporting from Mumbai, India — When India’s Supreme Court this week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried, most likely forever, a 157-year-old law introduced during ...
Newsweek

How the Queen’s Modern Commonwealth Compared to the Former British Empire

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on ...