Urban Life
Articles in Urban Life
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Society
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
Society
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
Society
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!
Society
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.
Society
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
Global Issues
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
Society
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
Society
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
Society
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?









