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Race Report: Sewell Commission Couldn’t Find Something It Wasn’t Looking For
9 April 2021
, The methodology used by the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities excluded the possibility of finding that differences in outcomes are the result of race, says Jonathan Portes

Race Report: Recommendations will ‘Insulate Government from any Potential Criticism on Future Policy’
9 April 2021
, While many agree with a recommendation to disaggregate the term ‘BAME’, the director of the Institute of Race Relations warns that this aims to create a new set of norms about how race and racism are conceptualised – and to divert attention away from structural racism

EXCLUSIVE Race Report: Moving Away from ‘BAME’ Could Make Research into Structural Racism ‘Impossible’, Experts Warn
9 April 2021
, A recommendation to disaggregate the term ‘Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic’ risks creating a ‘league table’ of stigma of different minority groups, say campaigners and academics

British History’s Brutish Imperialism has Become a Global Talking Point
7 April 2021
, John Lubbock explores how the restitution of looted historical artefacts is being navigated by cultural institutions around the world

Race Report: A Deeply Cynical Exercise in Distraction
1 April 2021
, Maheen Behrana explores the sinister motivations behind a Government-commissioned report which has found that institutional racism in Britain does not exist

Race Report: The Government Marks Its Own Homework Again
31 March 2021
, Brian Cathcart provides his analysis of today's report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which found that institutional racism does not exist in Britain

‘Diversity’: A Smokescreen Not A Solution
25 March 2021
, 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

EXCLUSIVE The ‘Phantom Threat’: University Free Speech Policy Only Based on ‘Small’ Amount of Evidence, Government Admits
23 March 2021
, Sam Bright unpicks the evidence, relied on by ministers, for their new clampdown on academic institutions

Huw Edwards, His Flag and How the BBC’s Appeasement of its Enemies Backfired
22 March 2021
, The corporation’s biggest mistake was to court and give a platform to extreme voices, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

Get the Bunting Out for Bonkers Britain 2021!
19 March 2021
, Otto English provides his assessment of how a country became consumed by a flag and lost its mind

Strongman Politics and Culture Wars Purposefully Derail All Chances of Progress
19 March 2021
, In the past week, the police was deployed as an instrument in Boris Johnson’s increasingly authoritarian agenda, argues Maheen Behrana

Incarcerated by Myths: The Meghan and Harry Affair Has Exposed the Fact-Free Press
10 March 2021
, The distortion of truth, for political and commercial gain, underpins the British newspaper industry, says Sam Bright

Beyond the Masquerade: The Real Powers Behind the Hollow Crown
9 March 2021
, 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

Another Country: From Cool Britannia to Nationalist Hubris
3 March 2021
, Professor Chris Painter wonders how Britain has turned into such a radically different country in the space of a decade

EXCLUSIVE Who is Free Speech For? Network of Alt-Right Activists Target Anti-Racist Campaigner Over Tweet
1 March 2021
, 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

Johnson’s Culture Wars Hide the Real Security Problems
26 February 2021
, In the appointment of David Frost to oversee the consequences of Brexit, Mike Buckley sees little evidence that the Prime Minister can hold his winning ‘Get Brexit Done’ coalition together

In his Upside-Down World, the Only Free Speech Johnson Cares About is his Own
23 February 2021
, The Government’s ‘free speech’ proposals aim not to invite conversation but to shut it down – an Orwellian allegory of epic proportions, says Jonathan Lis

Who Is the Government’s ‘Free Speech in Education’ Strategy Actually For?
23 February 2021
, The Department for Education’s decision to cite ADF International in a report on the issue raises concerning questions, says Sian Norris

From Folklore to Wokelore: How Myths of Britishness are Turning Totalitarian
18 February 2021
, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu argue that Britain cannot ignore the Conservative kulturkampf, and that one way to combat the mythologising of politics is to expose the politics of the myths

Only 29% of People in UK have a ‘Positive Attitude’ Towards Muslims
16 February 2021
, Sian Norris reports on a new study by anti-racist groups assessing the anti-minority views of people across Europe

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