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If BMW Owned the 2000s, Audi Owned the 2010s

Dynasties are really only defined after they’re over. We still talk about the British Empire, the original Star Wars trilogy, and BMW sport sedans of the 1990s and early 2000s. Not because their reigns lasted forever, but because they ended, giving way to forgettable mediocrity.

Motor1

Commonwealth should become a trade bloc and invite Ukraine to join, says new report

Ahead of next week’s Commonwealth heads of government summit in Samoa, a major report recommends a complete overhaul of the organisation with historic links to the British Empire

The Independent UK

Caitlin Logan: We can’t behave like Commonwealth Games represent something normal

SOMETIMES it’s easy to forget that Scotland really is a part of Great Britain – especially when you surround yourself with people who bear no…

The National (Scotland)

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Biden backs Starmer’s bid to renegotiate Brexit and bring UK closer to EU

Starmer is in Washington for this year’s Nato summit with Biden keen to back him over changing Brexit

The Independent UK

Empireworld review: A conversation-changing look at the British Empire's worldwide legacy

Sathnam Sanghera wants to play a game with you. He’s visiting a school where the boys wear “spotless white shirts” and “dark-blue blazers”, there’s a Latin motto, an official crest, a house system, and a stirring school song that contains the lyrics “always play the game!” Is he somewhere in…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Trapped in History by Nicholas Rankin review: The horrors of empire are within living memory

They used to say the sun never set on the British Empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark. And when darkness fell on the empire after the Second World War, that was proven unsettlingly true. While politicians in the post-war period spoke of a “wind of change”…

Evening Standard

Al Murray on his new show about the British Empire: 'In the culture war I'm a conscientious objector'

The comedian on unpicking the myths around Empire, the issue of reparations, and running against Nigel Farage as the Pub Landlord

Evening Standard

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‘A huge human drama’: how the revolt that began on the Gladstone plantation led to emancipation

The Demerara Rebellion failed, but it was a step towards ending slavery in the British empire

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan and its complex journey out of the British Empire

We're looking at how all 65 former British Empire countries became independent.

The National (Scotland)

Uganda revives colonial-era railway after Chinese funds fall through

Uganda has begun restoring a disused branch of a railway line built under the British Empire, which it hopes will offer a cheaper way to transport goods to neighbouring countries.

Radio France Internationale

The National explores independence around the world in new series

UNIONISTS would have you believe that Scotland could never be successfully independent.

The National (Scotland)

‘Assassin’ who threatened to kill late Queen with crossbow at Windsor ‘inspired by Star Wars and AI chatbot’

Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, who called himself after characters in the franchise, was arrested in royal residence grounds with powerful weapon

The Independent UK

British Asians reflect on Empire before King Charles’s coronation

Decades after the end of the British Empire, many South Asian Britons are still grappling with the monarchical legacy.

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