John Newsinger plots Gordon Brown’s political trajectory as the principal architect of New Labour, and his recent embrace of the neoliberal agenda “with all the fervour of the recently converted”.

Government spin on the role of British forces around the world portrays them as gallant beret-wearing chaps just trying to help. Writer and anti-war activist John Newsinger recalls the events of the Great Indian Rebellion 150 years ago this month, which show how far this is from the truth.

It is 25 years since Thatcher launched the Falklands War to save her career. John Newsinger looks at what this meant for British imperialism.

An extract from John Newsingers new book on the British Empire…

Recent threats against Iran follow a history of imperialist interference.

John Newsinger on David Anderson, ‘Histories of the Hanged’ and Caroline Elkins, ‘Britain’s Gulag.’ Complementary accounts of British colonial crimes in Kenya. The throttling of a liberation movement by gallows and gaol, re-examined in the shadow of Abu Ghraib.

“Not in the British tradition”, was the response to torture revelations in Iraq last week. Yet far worse atrocities took place in Kenya in the 1950s.