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Ian Blair's reforms must survive him

  • 15 November 2007
  • 1 comment

The next commissioner's main task will be restoring the confidence of those committed to change

A false messenger

  • 01 November 2007
  • 3 comments

A return to random stop-and-search of young blacks in the inner cities will throw our communities into violent disorder

A black and white glimpse of the past

  • 18 October 2007
  • 1 comment

The crowd, black and white, pounced on this vanguard of racism and inflicted on those reactionaries a merciless hiding. And how they ran away!

Nervous passengers beware

  • 04 October 2007

The challenges of travelling in the Caribean

The sister who brought me home

  • 20 September 2007
  • 2 comments

Fractured families spread across different continents, living apart from those with whom we are closest - these are the experiences of almost every immigrant home in Britain.

Role models aren't only middle-class

  • 06 September 2007

The instinct of any caste or class is to reproduce itself, and so it is with the black and urban middle classes

Brixton watches the weather

  • 23 August 2007

Hurricane Dean prompts memories of its devastating forerunner - Hurricane Gilbert - which destroyed or damaged almost four-fifths of the Jamaica's houses

A cop with paramilitary pretensions

  • 09 August 2007
  • 1 comment

They were given the order to shoot to kill - and this referred to anyone they deemed a suicide bomber

Battle is joined for the right to pray

  • 26 July 2007
  • 5 comments

The simple erection of a mosque in these anti-Islamic times triggers passions so long concealed beneath the surface

No war, no terror, just a group of misfits

  • 12 July 2007
  • 2 comments

The first statement to fall from the lips of Sir Alan West stated that this battle against jihadists would last 15 years. Where did that figure come from?

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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