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Why we are Boycotting the Independent Review of Prevent
Dr Fahid Qurashi explains widespread concerns in the Muslim community about the review of the controversial counter-terrorism strategy
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The Top Five Most Dangerous Countries for Civilians Will Surprise You
CJ Werleman digs into the findings of a new report detailing acts of political violence around the world in 2020
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‘Diversity’: A Smokescreen Not A Solution
As Buckingham Palace conducts a ‘diversity review’, Hardeep Matharu explores how the focus on ‘opportunity’, minority recruitment drives and Boris Johnson’s ‘most diverse’ Cabinet actually sidesteps the issue of tackling systemic racism in Britain today
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‘Uncomfortable Conversations’ Need to be had About Why Murder of Two Black Sisters ‘Hardly Made the News’, Says MP
Dawn Butler spoke to Hardeep Matharu about why the culture of policing and its interaction with race must become part of the wider conversations being had around women’s rights and criminal justice
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Boris Johnson Aide Supervised Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Thesis Inspired By ‘White Genocide’ Believer
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a toxic narrative is permeating British government and media to create an increasingly mainstream white nationalist echo chamber
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The Government’s Ties to Racist ‘Hate’ Groups: Part One
Nafeez Ahmed reports on how an official counter-extremism advisor is on the pay-roll of funders behind far-right hate groups
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‘An Extremely Dangerous Precedent’: Are the Conservatives Institutionalising Islamophobia?
Examining key appointments to Ofcom, the BBC and the Prevent review, Hamza Ali Shah argues that the Government appears to be more intent on rewarding intolerance to Muslims than investigating it
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Why is Sarah Everard’s Murder a Tipping Point?
Hardeep Matharu explores how the tragedy of Sarah Everard’s death has captured public attention in a way many other killings of women have not – and the questions this raises for us all
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Will the Editors Who Came Out Against Racism Now Walk the Walk?
Brian Cathcart argues that, if the discussion on how to tackle racism in the press only focuses again on the recruitment of journalists from minority communities, the chance for systemic change will be missed
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Beyond the Masquerade: The Real Powers Behind the Hollow Crown
Hardeep Matharu explores how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have exposed the real power structures in Britain – now in full destructive, neo-imperial retreat
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‘It’s Been Happening For Years’: Anti-Traveller Racism Across Britain’s Campsites
Following revelations of a blacklist of Irish Traveller names at holiday camp Pontins, Sian Norris speaks to a member of the Traveller community about an alleged pattern of discrimination
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Who is Free Speech For? Network of Alt-Right Activists Target Anti-Racist Campaigner Over Tweet
As a new free speech digital platform launches today, Sian Norris and Nafeez Ahmed investigate how its editor is part of a network attacking anti-racist activists
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Why Won’t the World Call the Uyghur Persecution Genocide?
The West is reluctant to fully condemn the actions of the Chinese Communist Party because of the sanctions that will be invoked as a retaliatory response from Beijing, says CJ Werleman
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‘Free speech’ Czar Role linked to Toby Young’s Free Speech Union and US Right-Wing Funding Network
Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation reveals that the Government’s new proposal is inspired by attempts to suppress free speech about racism
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Asylum Seekers Have Been Deliberately Set-Up to Fail
The brutal portrayal and treatment of asylum seekers has been used to foment nationalist grievances, contends Maheen Behrana
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Continuing to Racialise Child Sexual Abuse By Focusing on ‘Grooming Gangs’ Won’t Lead to Systemic Change
Dr Ella Cockbain explores why the publicity around the Government’s new child sexual abuse strategy could do more harm than good when it comes to protecting children
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Racial Biases have been Welcomed Back Into the Education System
Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson explains the innate discrimination that will afflict many black and minority ethnic pupils now that normal exams have been scrapped due to the Coronavirus crisis
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Government’s Independent Anti-Radicalisation Appointment was ‘Rigged’, Reveals Former Chief Crown Prosecutor
The Home Secretary’s new Prevent strategy czar once directed an alt-right lobby group that sponsored her trip to Washington DC, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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The Great Distortion: How Clickbait Culture Warps Reality
Maheen Behrana explores how a broken business model incentivises news outlets to distort facts
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Home Office Study Trashes The Times’ ‘Muslim Grooming Gangs’ Narrative
The journalistic credibility of Andrew Norfolk, the award-winning Times journalist with the anti-Muslim agenda, continues to crumble away
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Uprising to Rising Up: The Education of Alex Wheatle
Bryan Knight speaks to Alex Wheatle, whose life was recently brought to television screens by Steve McQueen in the BBC’s Small Axe series
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The Times of Islamophobia: How the Demonisation Works
Moazzam Begg explains why Rupert Murdoch’s flagship newspaper had to make an apology to him and the advocacy organisation CAGE and argues that deeper questions about Islamophobia still stand
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George Eustice’s Trumpian Dog-Whistle Will Only Embolden the Far-Right
With the Government minister failing to condemn Millwall football fans’ booing of players taking the knee, Adrian Goldberg argues that this was no isolated incident
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The Journey to Confront My Whiteness
Hannah Charlton reflects on her personal exploration of understanding racism today and the individual and collective legacy of our Empire past
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Hatred, Hypocrisy and Plain Bad Journalism at The Times
Brian Cathcart looks at the latest example of anti-Muslim bias at Britain’s newspaper of record
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Fighting Fascism: Art As Activism
Jan Fuscoe, of the ‘Brick Lane: The Turning Point’ project, hears from Dan Jones, an artist, activist and campaigner for over 50 years
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Police Shootings Data Raises Concerns Over Structural Discrimination
Iain Overton and Murray Jones reveal new figures about police shootings in the UK, exposing racism embedded in the identity of both the victims and perpetrators
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British Muslims and the Coronavirus Crisis: Undervalued and Underprotected
In Islamophobia Awareness month, Afzal Khan MP explores a report revealing how minority ethnic communities, particularly British Muslims, have been stigmatised during the pandemic
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Michael Gove’s Lobbyists at the Heart of White Nationalist Trumpworld
In the next part of this special Byline Times investigation, Nafeez Ahmed delves into a controversial ‘Alt-Right’ event attended by key figures in a conservative lobbying group with Home Office funding to research Islamist militancy
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Trumpocracy in the UK: Did British Conservative Lobby Group Help Shape Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’?
In the second part of its special investigation, Byline Times reveals how the man credited with inspiring Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ had close links with members of a British conservative lobby group with links to Steve Bannon and the Mercers
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Kemi Badenoch’s Speech is the Latest in a Multi-Pronged Attack on Anti-Racism
Liam Shrivastava, of the Institute of Race Relations, tackles new right-wing efforts to quash the campaign for racial equality
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‘We Want the Ability, Space & Time to Retell Our Own History’
Melissa Chemam speaks to campaigners and creatives taking part in Black History Month in Bristol, where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was brought down in June and discussions about past and present racism continue to run deep
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Imperial Amnesia Strikes Back: ‘Racism in America Nothing to do with Us’
In a debate on the UK’s Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch highlighted the Government’s colonial arrogance by deflecting attention and throwing its ‘special’ ally under the bus
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Fighting Fascism and Britain’s ‘Divide and Rule’
Jan Fuscoe, of the Brick Lane Project, tells the story of Balwinder Singh Rana, an Indian activist who has been fighting racism and structural attempts at division in Britain for decades
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OUR LIVES MATTER: Black History is Still Confined to the Margins of the Education System
Teacher Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson explains how students are taught to equate Britishness with whiteness
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Chinese University Associated with Uyghur Repression Signs Partnership with Exeter
Academics at Tsinghua University in Beijing have been accused of fuelling China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims by laying the intellectual foundations of the minority’s abuse
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Rape and Caste Supremacism in India
CJ Werleman argues that the rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Hathras is another alarm bell indicating the extent of the human rights crisis in India
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From Hostile Environment to Prison Island
Sam Bright exposes the hostile environment hypocrisy of Priti Patel, who has in one week promised to learn from the Windrush scandal and threatened to imprison asylum seekers on a distant island
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Our Land: A Corporate-State Stitch-Up is Crushing Indigenous Communities in Argentina
Carole Concha Bell speaks to indigenous rights activists in Argentina about their battle to reclaim ancestral land
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The Woman with the Afro: The Story of Barbara Beese
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and ahead of a new drama by Steve McQueen, Jan Fuscoe speaks to one of the last surviving members of the ‘Mangrove Nine’, whose trial in the 1970s was a defining moment for Black Power in Britain
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Modern Day Islamophobia Starts with the US and Israeli Right-Wing but Ends With Saudi Arabia and the UAE
CJ Werleman traces the evolution of a plan to equate Islam with ‘terrorism’ to an ideology deployed by Arab Gulf leaders and autocrats everywhere
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‘Cuties’ Recycles the Same Damaging Stereotypes About Muslim Women – But Where was the Outrage?
Amina Shareef reviews Cuties, which has attracted criticism for its over-sexualisation of young girls, and finds a troubling portrayal of Muslim femininity
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Tackling Islamophobia in ‘Terrorism’ Won’t happen by Sticking the Label On More White Perpetrators
Government policy around counter-terrorism and programmes such as Prevent, not just media coverage, must be examined to shift damaging narratives around Islam in Britain
