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The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

Max Jeffery has narrated this article for you to listen to. William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at...

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The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Imperial measurements / The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at school. It is an ‘elephant in the room’, he claimed on the...

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The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Imperial measurements / The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at school. It is an ‘elephant in the room’, he claimed on the...

02.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at school. It is an ‘elephant in the room’, he claimed on the...

02.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The lesson of Belfast’s riots

On Ardoyne Road on Wednesday afternoon, the original conflict resumed. Two loyalists passed a couple of nationalists, and they exchanged hostilities....

12.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

White Mughal / Why don’t you agree with William Dalrymple?

‘In Xanadu records the impressions, prejudices and enthusiasms of a very young, naive and deeply Anglocentric undergraduate,’ William Dalrymple...

03.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

My day with the Schöffels of Badminton

The first arrest of the weekend at Badminton Horse Trials occurred at 7:17 p.m. on Saturday. Fight, separation, removal, detention, escape, capture,...

13.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Trans anarchists / The new age of transgender rage

It’s a year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex – and not much has changed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission...

09.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The new age of transgender rage

It’s a year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex – and not much has changed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission...

25.04.2026 30

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The new age of transgender rage

It’s a year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex – and not much has changed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission...

23.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Rich pickings / Apart from Mandelson, who is Labour’s biggest freebie lover?

13.02.2026 70

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Apart from Mandelson, who is Labour’s biggest freebie lover?

12.02.2026 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

‘Alternative living’ / A day with Bristol’s van dwellers

07.02.2026 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

‘Alternative living’ / A day with Bristol’s van dwellers

07.02.2026 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

A day with Bristol’s van dwellers

07.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Criminal candidates, grooming gangs and petrol bombings – welcome to Oldham

16.01.2026 40

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Toxic politics / Grooming gangs and petrol bombings – welcome to Oldham

15.01.2026 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Who was ‘Stakeknife’?

09.12.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Straight to video / The ‘Crewkerne Man’ is reviving political satire for the AI age

05.12.2025 30

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Unwanted intervention / John Major is shouting at the void

20.11.2025 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Why can’t socialists just get along?

15.10.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is self-destructing

12.10.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The cult of Obama is over

25.09.2025 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

A revolution in the arms bazaar

14.09.2025 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Force majeure / How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police

09.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police

06.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Force majeure / How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police

05.09.2025 30

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Force majeure / How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police

04.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police

04.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Bournemouth police are losing control

15.08.2025 40

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Inside the Mohammed Hijab trial

07.08.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

How Cowes found the secret of a successful seaside resort

02.08.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Teddy bears and TikTokers: on the Epping front line

31.07.2025 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Adam Curtis can see your future

01.07.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Ballymena got what it wanted

17.06.2025 40

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

In Essex, the only way is Reform

08.06.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Pedalling goods / Have I unmasked Cambridge’s bike bandit?

06.06.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Pedalling goods / Have I unmasked Cambridge’s bike bandit?

05.06.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Have I unmasked Cambridge’s bike bandit?

05.06.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Kneecap are not rebels

25.05.2025 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Hunting for mum / How were three siblings abandoned in east London?

20.05.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The search for the mother of three abandoned babies

15.05.2025 10

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

Nobody’s children / The search for the mother of three abandoned babies

15.05.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery

The search for the parents of three abandoned babies

15.05.2025 20

The Spectator

Max Jeffery