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    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Turn Rhodes statue to face wall in shame, says Antony Gormley

      Sculptor says move would help to address ‘collective amnesia’ over memorials

    • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
      UK race relations
      Oxford college votes to start work on removing Rhodes statue

      Victory for anti-imperialism campaigners as Oriel says it wants monument taken down

    • Monday, 15 June, 2020
      Ann Olivarius
      Rhodes must fall, but who should stand in his place?

      A Zambian civil-rights activist and the first African-American Rhodes scholar would be worthy inheritors

    • Friday, 12 June, 2020
      UK race relations
      Statues fall as British anti-colonial uprising spreads

      Actions of protesters over slave trader memorial inspire activists and leave politicians catching up

    • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
      Philanthropy
      Eric Schmidt puts up $5m a year for ‘junior’ Rhodes scholarships

      Former Google chief seeks to help mentor young students from lower-income countries

    • Monday, 12 November, 2018
      ReviewBooks
      Dethroning historical reputations, Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman

      Charting the battle lines between legacy and activism

    • Thursday, 9 August, 2018
      FT Magazine
      Bristol, the slave trade and a reckoning with the past

      The battle over the statue of Edward Colston reflects deeper divisions in the city

    • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
      Ann Olivarius
      Cecil Rhodes’ statue will gaze down at another kind of scholar

      Global scholarships open to everyone are a century in the making

    • Friday, 18 August, 2017
      The FT ViewGeopolitics
      Past battles should not inflame present disputes

      Statues serve to commemorate reconciliation rather than division

    • Monday, 30 May, 2016
      UK politics & policy
      Rhodes Trust tries to reach out beyond empire

      Oxford officials deny move is linked to students’ anti-imperialist campaign

    • Friday, 22 April, 2016
      Anti-Semitism
      Students in Cambridge and York threaten to split from NUS

      Complaints about new union head’s ‘anti-semitic’ remarks

    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2016
      Philanthropy
      The trouble with legacies

      To put one’s name on a building makes a future demand on history

    • Sunday, 31 January, 2016
      UK politics & policy
      Top universities reject Cameron’s criticism over racial diversity

      Elite institutions insist they are working hard to improve access to non-white students

    • Friday, 29 January, 2016
      UK politics & policy
      Oxford college decides to retain Cecil Rhodes statue

      Oriel cuts short consultation after donors threaten to pull bequests

    • Friday, 29 January, 2016
      Instant InsightJames Blitz
      Rhodes must stay if we value free speech in our universities

      Racial inequality exists in our universities but removing statues will not help, writes James Blitz

    • Monday, 25 January, 2016
      John Plender
      Capitalists excel at giving themselves a bad name

      Oxford’s dilemma is indicative of how the system can create wealth but often in ways that offend

    • Saturday, 16 January, 2016
      InterviewThe Monday Interview
      Oxford’s new vice-chancellor looks beyond Rhodes row

      Terrorism expert Louise Richardson is university’s first female head

    • Wednesday, 13 January, 2016
      Michael Skapinker
      Taking down Rhodes’s statue would be a futile gesture

      Removal would suggest that Oriel College thinks it can pretend it is not linked to its benefactor

    • Tuesday, 22 December, 2015
      The FT ViewUK politics & policy
      The danger of taking Rhodes out of Oxford

      A statue should not be removed just because it offends modern morality

    • Monday, 21 December, 2015
      Business education
      Student intolerance of ‘incorrect’ thinking imperils free speech

      Britain’s universities suffer new wave of censoriousness led by students and fuelled by social media

    • Thursday, 21 May, 2015
      African companies
      De Beers to sell legendary Kimberley Mines

      Decision ends 125 years of diamond history

    • Tuesday, 31 March, 2015
      Entrepreneurship
      How does one make it as a business pioneer?

      Being a business creator rather than merely a discoverer was the key to making the shortlist

    • Friday, 27 March, 2015
      World
      Protests at Rhodes statue gain momentum across southern Africa

      ‘Poo’ protest gathers backing and triggers emotive debate on pace of racial transformation

    • Monday, 22 April, 2013
      The FT ViewPrivate equity
      Chinese classes

      Schwarzman’s scholars will promote better understanding

    • Sunday, 17 February, 2013
      African companies
      South Africa: A faded rainbow

      Protests and disaffection threaten the ANC’s hegemony but President Zuma insists the ruling party is not to blame

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