Actress Jameela Jamil has declared that the British are "the most evil people in history". Lipton Matthews says that no honest reading of history could possibly come to such a sweeping and one-sided conclusion.

China had better engineering, bigger cities and higher IQs – yet Europe took over the world. The answer isn't intelligence or institutions, says Lipton Matthews; it's individualism, and it came first.

Africa's role in the transatlantic slave trade is more complicated than the familiar narrative suggests, says Lipton Matthews. African elites shaped the trade, set the terms and extracted vast wealth from European traders.

Jamaica has pulled off one of the developing world's most impressive financial turnarounds. So why is its Government focusing on reparations claims instead of telling that success story to the world? asks Lipton Matthews.

Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Steven Tucker on the 'far Right' anti-Islamic plot that never was; BBC's claim that the World Cup took place in 'dangerous extreme heat' is laughable, says Paul Homewood; and Lipton Matthews says no, we're not evil.