Tag: Colonialism

31 March 2023

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On Friday 31 March, former BBC host and now C5 presenter Jeremy Vine did little to dispel the notion that ...

Homophobia in Uganda is a horrifying demonstration of colonialism and evangelism at work

by Alex/Rose Cocker

27 March 2023

Last week, on 21 March, Uganda's parliament passed draconian homophobic and anti-LGBT+ legislation. MP Fox Odoi-Oywelowo warned that this would ...

Trophy hunting ban is not colonialism. A male lion in the Serengeti.

Banning big game imports is not colonialism – trophy hunting is

17 March 2023

The House of Commons has today passed a bill which would ban imports of hunting trophies from endangered and at-risk ...

Artwork of corporate colonialism in the Global South, depicting a wind energy land grab in Mexico. The image is split down the middle by a picture of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, a field of corn and a farmer walks along his crops. Trees in the distance. On the right, five wind turbines dominate the landscape. No high crops can be grown beneath them.

UK climate aid funding corporate colonialism in the Global South

8 March 2023

This is the fourth part of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing ...

Rishi Sunak refuces calls for a ceasefire

Just when you thought Britain couldn’t get any more racist, the Tories bring the Illegal Migration Bill

by Eliza Egret

8 March 2023

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Rishi Sunak has announced that refugees arriving into the UK by small boats will be permanently banned from re-entering the ...

As Joe Biden deliberates on the Willow project, the climate and indigenous people hang in the balance

by Afroze Fatima Zaidi

3 March 2023

As the planet teeters on the brink of climate catastrophe, US president Joe Biden may be about to approve an ...

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab in Nepal. The image is split in two by an basic image of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, terraced fields and a village on a green mountainside, where a lady harvests crops. On the right, a huge hydropower dam.

UK climate aid decimates multiple indigenous communities in the Global South

4 March 2023

This is the third of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab. An image of the UK splits the image in half, with bank notes flowing from it. On the left, satellite image of the land before the solar park, plus a landscape scene of trees, grasses, scrub and a cow on common land. On the right, satellite image with the solar park dominating the area and a landscape image of a series of solar panels. This relates to UK climate finance being used in India

UK climate strategies are colonising indigenous villages in India

1 March 2023

This is the second of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Artwork of a solar land-grab. A yellow excavator runs through the centre of the image pushing rubble, splitting the picture in two. On the left, two farmers harvest from a field of chickpea crop. In the distance, a cow grazes on dry grasses. Trees and shrubs dot the horizon. On the right side, lines of solar panels stretch out to the horizon, where the rich and biodiverse crop field once existed. All this represents climate aid and the village of Badi in India

UK government climate ‘aid’ set to displace indigenous villagers in India

1 March 2023

This is the first of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Newly discovered archives recount brutal career of a colonial mercenary

by Joe Glenton

16 February 2023

Content warning: graphic discussion of violent prisoner abuse Testimony uncovered by Declassified UK recorded the violent career of a colonial ...

Wide shot showing Dandora landfill, which is the final resting place of tonnes of used clothing donations from Europe that go on to become plastic waste

One-third of European used clothing donations to Kenya is really plastic waste

by Glen Black

16 February 2023

A report published on 16 February by the Changing Markets Foundation said one third of all second-hand clothing donations to ...

A picture of refugees behind railings at Manston detention centre

Revelations about human rights abuses at Manston underscore the UK’s colonial immigration regime

6 February 2023

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that the Home Office ignored warnings over the Manston refugee detention centre. ...

Yet another Black man has died following police contact

6 January 2023

It has been revealed that another Black man died during contact with the police - this time while experiencing severe ...

Morocco becomes first African team in World Cup semi-finals as support for Palestine soars

by Maryam Jameela

12 December 2022

Last week, the Moroccan football team made history by becoming the first African nation to qualify for the World Cup ...

UN troops stand by their vehicles in Haiti

Calls for intervention in Haiti ignore that colonial meddling is at the root of the current crisis

by Joe Glenton

3 November 2022

Foreign military intervention in Haiti is being talked up again in the press. On 15 October, it was being reported ...

The House of Commons is supposedly the UK's centre of democracy

The UK’s morally bankrupt colonial democracy is the fault of both people and politicians

21 October 2022