Identity, Empire and the Culture War

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