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And into the establishment. there's no way i would have got a job on the financial times if i hadn't gone to cambridge university. but at the same time, i think i lost touch with my ethnic background and being punjabi in that i didn't study a single brown author until my final terms at university. and i think that was a failure of education, and i don't think my experience is untypical, in that a lot of our education, our curriculums are whitewashed and we don't study the role that empire had in so many things. and to take things that are very relevant to your own family's history, did you lea...

I suppose the question then is what sathnam sanghera would teach, because i look at your writings, including empire land, but yourjournalism as well, and you are very trenchant in your views now about how we need to use very specific language about, for example, the british empire. you call it "a wilful, unapologetic exercise in white racial supremacy. britain was dehumanising black people on a super—industrial scale." but i also say empire didn't start out as that. it didn't start out as a wilfully racist thing. it happened in the 19th century when britain suddenly found itself ruling a qua...

And how you learnt it, because as you say, you were from a deprived part of wolverhampton in the west midlands and yet you were academically gifted and successful so you went to a predominantly white grammar school in a very different neighbourhood. and you say that that school, it had a huge impact on you. i think one phrase you've used is that it sort of "cleansed your mind", and not necessarily in an altogether positive way. what did it do to you? well, i guess it got me where i wanted to go, which is intojournalism and into the establishment. there's no way i would have got a job on the fi...

The decolonisation of curriculums, people get upset. it implies that you're wanting to delete things out of the curriculum. but i think you can continue to teach things like the world wars and so on and just include black history and brown history. i suppose the question then is what sathnam sanghera would teach, because i look at your writings, including empire land, but yourjournalism as well, and you are very trenchant in your views now about how we need to use very specific language about, for example, the british empire. you call it "a wilful, unapologetic exercise in white racial suprema...

Well, i guess it got me where i wanted to go, which was into journalism and into the establishment. there's no way i would have got a job on the financial times if i hadn't gone to cambridge university. but, at the same time, i think i lost touch with my ethnic background and being punjabi in that i didn't study a single brown author until my final terms at university. and i think that was a failure of education, and i don't think my experience is untypical, in that a lot of our education, our curriculums are whitewashed and we don't study the role that empire had in so many things. and to tak...