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...Axing the colonial-era non-domiciled tax regime would raise an estimated £3.6bn a year. Hunt has previously criticised Labour’s plan to scale back the tax break....
Álvaro Enrigue revisits Spain’s conquest of Mexico through the eyes of Cortés, the conquistadors and the vanquished natives
...Jeremy Hunt made big changes to the tax regime for so-called non-doms in his Budget, axing the colonial-era concept of domicile in tax and cutting the amount of time that people can benefit from the perks...
...The Wretched of the Earth, which praises the salutary effects of anti-colonial violence on the colonised, was in part a defence of the FLN’s tactics....
...Ireland’s current home is the first of 20 houses in her new book A Life in Design, which features several of her own properties, including a 1923 Spanish Colonial-style property in Santa Monica she bought...
Marcy Norton takes a fascinating look at how animals were treated as thinking, feeling beings in many pre-colonial societies
...Ian Stephens, a yoga-loving journalist based in Calcutta in the 1940s, doubtless seemed an unlikely figure to take on colonial rulers in wartime India....
...Yet this story has been overlooked in many histories of the postwar period and also of the end of the colonial era....
...Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have been given 72 hours to leave the country, foreign minister Yván Gil said on Thursday, accusing the body of failing to be impartial and had an “abusive, colonial...
...Other funding: several ways of raising the fiscal headroom look likely, including appropriating Labour’s plan to cut colonial-era tax breaks for non-domiciled UK residents....
...A Tropical Modernist, he rejected colonial architectural styles that ignored their surroundings, speaking of the need to look “Ceylon [Sri Lanka] squarely in the face”....
...This is an exhibition that initially appears anachronistic, a celebration of British Modernism developed for a late-colonial context in West Africa and India....
...Reimagining Ouologuem’s story, he moves it 30 years closer to the colonial period and introduces a plethora of historical material and new situations, the better to address the main question — “isn’t the...
...Rapid advances followed the defeat of fascism in 1945, colonial independence in the 1950s and 1960s and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, though declines feature in the past two decades in many countries...
...“And the potential evolution of cyber threats into infrastructure attacks — similar to the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021 — is likely to further amplify these repercussions.”...
...Caleb Okereke, a Nigerian journalist writing in Foreign Policy, says the claim that homosexuality is “un-African” has little basis in fact, with same-sex relationships tolerated in many pre-colonial African...
...The mine is run by a unit of Jardine, one of Hong Kong’s oldest colonial-era business empires....
...Under the leadership of General Omar Tchiani, Niger has cut ties with former colonial power France, ordering the departure of 1,500 French troops and expelling the French ambassador....
...Whether the decision to expand carbon markets is ultimately “good” or “bad”, Africans are not merely passive bystanders to some sort of neo-imperial or colonial financial market ambush....
...Today, it has resurfaced, albeit with a different historical parallel: the crimes of German colonial rule in Africa....
...Unlike other colonial powers such as Britain, which abandoned its former dominions in Africa with almost unseemly haste, France stuck around....
...The American Colonial house contains Chinese artwork and furniture that recall Buck’s first home: she was raised in China, the daughter of American missionaries who took her there shortly after her birth...
...The Carmel Beach Hotel, operated by Mirabel, the hotel-restaurant company owned by local David Fink, has taken over Colonial Terrace at the corner of 13th and San Antonio (a serendipitous location: San Antonio...
...In effect, the British empire became a narco-state, argues Amitav Ghosh in Smoke and Ashes, a propulsive and revelatory history of how opium, a tool of colonial capitalism, was used to pummel India, corrupt...
...The book begins with a tour de force of “Spot the colonial inheritance” in New Delhi....
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