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Helluva Year! Boris Johnson’s 2020 Review
31 December 2020
, The Prime Minister has an 'Australian Style' litany of successes to celebrate in his first full year, as told to Otto English

Beyond the Lure of Empire: The Door of No Return
30 December 2020
, Bonnie Greer, a former British Museum trustee, observes the role of African Empires in her own roots and looks beyond possession and subjugation for true post-imperial thinking

Learning to Love: Liberating Speech from Hate Speech
29 December 2020
, Angelique Richardson explores how social media has fuelled its own Orwellian ‘two-minute hate’ and ways to combat the racial and social fragmentation it produces

Labour Must Confront the Conservatives’ Immigration Lies Or Continue to Lose
28 December 2020
, The likes of Boris Johnson, Priti Patel and Nigel Farage will continue to capitalise politically on Labour’s unwillingness to portray immigration as a benefit to Britain, argues Mike Buckley

The Other Calais Crisis
23 December 2020
, Kevin O’Hara reports on a recent trip to Calais and the brutal conditions faced by asylum seekers

‘You See What People Can Do to Other People, People they Lived Side-By-Side With’: Ending the Silence on Partition and Empire
23 December 2020
, As discussions of Empire and Britain’s imperial history have come to the forefront in 2020, Hardeep Matharu speaks to BBC journalist and author Kavita Puri to explore what she learnt from those who lived through the end of the colonial project in India about divisions tearing societies apart for her book ‘Partition Voices’

The Sick Man of Europe Again: The Mutant Etonian Variant of English Exceptionalism
21 December 2020
, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu argue that the Coronavirus itself is the main beneficiary of Boris Johnson’s neo-imperial policies leading to the inevitable ‘cordon sanitaire’ around Britain even before a hard Brexit

Home Office Study Trashes The Times’ ‘Muslim Grooming Gangs’ Narrative
17 December 2020
, The journalistic credibility of Andrew Norfolk, the award-winning Times journalist with the anti-Muslim agenda, continues to crumble away

Britain’s Descent: Supremacy Not Sovereignty was Always the Dark Heart of Brexit
14 December 2020
, The central myth of Britain leaving the EU reveals the country’s insecure imperial ambitions and unresolved identity crisis, says Hardeep Matharu

Home Office’s E-Border Controls Plan Lags Behind Costing Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions, Watchdog Reveals
9 December 2020
, Delays uncovered by the National Audit Office coincide with other delays in Government plans to introduce new Brexit border controls and custom checks

George Eustice’s Trumpian Dog-Whistle Will Only Embolden the Far-Right
7 December 2020
, 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

EXCLUSIVE Home Office Admits Brexit Immigration Rules May Discriminate Against People with Disabilities
1 December 2020
, Priti Patel’s department has produced a damning report on its own immigration policy which acknowledges ‘potential indirect discrimination’

The Government’s Hollow Promises Leave the Chagos Islanders Abandoned Once More
1 December 2020
, Four years after the Government promised a major aid package to the British citizens it forced from their homes it has spent just half a million pounds, reports Steve Shaw

The Coronavirus Crisis: Boris Johnson’s Excuse for Bad Government
30 November 2020
, Under the cover of seemingly generous economic policies, the Government has eroded the rights of vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Sam Bright

The Journey to Confront My Whiteness
30 November 2020
, Hannah Charlton reflects on her personal exploration of understanding racism today and the individual and collective legacy of our Empire past

Behind Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party: The Latest in Politainment
20 November 2020
, A key figure in Britain’s ‘culture war’ is being spearheaded by a PR group with ties to Vote Leave donor Jeremy Hosking

Brexit’s Toll On Britain’s Creative Industries: The Sadness and Madness that Awaits
17 November 2020
, Composer Howard Goodall sets out what performers will need to know in a post-Brexit world and reflects on the sorrow of the Government’s desire to erect barriers, when the job of creatives is to tear them down

Britain’s Rump Trumpocracy: An Imperial State – Without An Empire
12 November 2020
, As the US moves away and Brexit crumbles, former Prime Minister John Major has exposed the isolation and colonial nostalgia of Britain, argues Hardeep Matharu

Chagos Islanders Seek Arrest of British Officials for ‘Apartheid’
5 November 2020
, Islanders forcibly expelled from a British colony in the Indian Ocean have filed charges with the International Criminal Court, reports Steve Shaw

A Forgotten Community: Bangladeshis Continue to be Marginalised in Modern Britain
27 October 2020
, The plight of British Bangladeshis is an unpopular one, explains Shafi Musaddique, yet the community continues to wrestle with unique inequalities

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