Empire and the Culture War

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

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

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

John Lubbock explores how the restitution of looted historical artefacts is being navigated by cultural institutions around the world

Maheen Behrana explores the sinister motivations behind a Government-commissioned report which has found that institutional racism in Britain does not exist

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

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

Sam Bright unpicks the evidence, relied on by ministers, for their new clampdown on academic institutions

The corporation’s biggest mistake was to court and give a platform to extreme voices, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

Otto English provides his assessment of how a country became consumed by a flag and lost its mind

In the past week, the police was deployed as an instrument in Boris Johnson’s increasingly authoritarian agenda, argues Maheen Behrana

The distortion of truth, for political and commercial gain, underpins the British newspaper industry, says Sam Bright

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

Professor Chris Painter wonders how Britain has turned into such a radically different country in the space of a decade

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

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

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

The Department for Education’s decision to cite ADF International in a report on the issue raises concerning questions, says Sian Norris

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

Sian Norris reports on a new study by anti-racist groups assessing the anti-minority views of people across Europe