Hira JungKow

May 3, 2024 | quillette.com | John Lloyd |Jeffrey Herf |Oliver Kamm |Hira JungKow

It is not uncommon to hear Britain referred to as England in casual conversation, and not without reason—England holds more than 80 percent of the island’s population; London is the seat of government and one of the world’s largest finance centres; the Bank of England is the Bank of Britain (so to speak); the BBC has most of its operations in England; the Royal family’s main home is at London’s Buckingham Palace.

May 2, 2024 | quillette.com | Jeffrey Herf |Oliver Kamm |Hira JungKow |Alexander Blum

On the evening of 29 April 2023, demonstrators occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, barricaded themselves inside, and refused to move until Columbia agreed to divest its endowment funds from Israel.  published by the Free Press shows a masked person using a hammer to smash the glass in the building’s doors, before using what appears to be a bike lock to secure them. Other masked protesters build a makeshift barricade out of chairs.

May 1, 2024 | quillette.com | Hira JungKow

BBC Radio 4’s new five-part documentary series Three Million purports to tell the “forgotten story” of the 1943 Bengal famine in British India. Programme maker Kavita Puri has unearthed a good deal of previously unheard testimony, and these eyewitness accounts are the series’ best feature. The harrowing descriptions of broken families, starving people feeding on carrion, and desperate masses roaming Calcutta vividly bring the tragedy to life.

Mar 1, 2024 | capx.co | Hira JungKow

Photo: Getty Images Weaponising a tragedy in 1943 to score points in today’s culture war is downright indecent The famine reminds us how war and state overreach can conspire to cause immense suffering We mustn't reduce a historical event with numerous complex causes to the actions of one manBlaming Winston Churchill for the Bengal Famine of 1943 has become an article of faith for the modern left.