Diane Abbott and the truth about British racism
Her comments on Radio 4 simply reflect a broader failure to discuss racism with care and nuance.
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The bastards of neoliberalism
The eccentrics of the new right aren’t rebelling against our political regime – they are its twisted successors.
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Robert Jenrick and the myth of “two-tier justice”
New sentencing guidelines have become the tool of cynical politicians playing divide-and-conquer politics.
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Nickel Boys is ambitious, immersive and alienating
The confident and provocative film offers style over connection.
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Origin: an awkward adaptation of complex race theory
Ava DuVernay’s take on Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is a lesson in the history of prejudice – and the perils of…
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Tory divisions over Rwanda reflect the wider anti-migrant mood across Europe
As far-right parties surge on the continent, Britain’s staunch multiculturalism is starting to look a little lonely.
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Europe’s race delusions
Built on imperial amnesia and competing nationalisms, the EU has never been the beacon of inclusion it claims to be.
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Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left
The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
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America is nothing more than a self-help society
On both the left and the right, political radicalism has given way to cultish self-improvement.
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Why affirmative action failed
Higher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.
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Was Windrush a dream or a nightmare?
The story of black Britain cannot be reduced to a myth.
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Against race essentialism
Black identity is a reality, not an idea.
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Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
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Less than a third of ethnic minority women attend cervical screenings
Research shows minority groups in the UK are less likely to take vital cancer and sexual health tests.
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a fixation…
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Why has it taken me so long to form friendships with other women of colour?
There can be more openness between us now. Growing up, we were trying to feign whiteness and scared of being…
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The innocent insidiousness of “Where are you from?”
People of colour are all too familiar with Lady Hussey’s question to Ngozi Fulani.
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“Woke policing” isn’t to blame for rising crime
There are quite a few police officers who could do with being a little more “woke”.
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Rishi Sunak isn’t the UK’s Barack Obama
He doesn’t represent change, hope or success against the odds.
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Donald Trump is hardly the only Republican chastising American Jews
It is a fact of political life that right-wingers like to whine about “disloyal” Jews voting Democrat.
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