From daycare to graduation, our education system stacks the odds against the poor. Predicted grades is just one of many hurdles that… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Each year when the A-level results come out, thousands of students and their families settle down to deal with the implications -… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
It is of course perfectly possible for a university, or any institution, to carry out a rigorous investigation into the historical origins… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Donald Trump did not cause America's democratic crisis of faith, he rode to power on it. Once in control, he and other populists discovered… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and trading nation… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I have met other black and mixed-race people who were victims of racism, often far worse than anything I experienced, and who have taken… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The great untruth around which everything pivots is the idea that the defenders of these statues are the defenders of history and truth; while… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The age of national leaders, or candidates for high office, has never been automatically regarded as an issue for concern. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
