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Updated online blue plaque includes claims that the ‘Father of the Factory System’ benefited from a system that ‘exploited enslaved workers’
If we seek to make drastic amends for anything tainted by racism or colonialism, we will literally have nothing left
Wikipedia moderators are currently considering removing an article titled “mass killings under communist regimes” over concerns of “bias.”
SIR – Yesterday’s U-turn on addressing the parliamentary standards issue is indicative of a government that seems unable to think through problems.
I50 years of the Paris Commune Why the Paris Commune Still Resonates, 150 Years Later Thursday 3 June 2021, by Enzo Traverso There is a paradoxical discrepancy between the meteoric rise and fall of the Paris Commune, whose life did not exceed seventy-two days, and its lasting presence as a central experience in the Left’s historical consciousness. Viewed through the lens of what some scholars call “world history,” what happened in Paris between March 18 and May 28, 1871, is almost insignificant. Most recent historians of the nineteenth century — think of the acclaimed works of Christ...