Urban Life

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Urban life - Darcus Howe gasps at a policeman

• 27 February 2006

We are not facing 50 years of terror, just a policeman trying to improve his job prospects

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Urban life - Darcus Howe hears the silence

• 20 February 2006

Two million British Muslims gazed from the sidelines at the extremists and opportunists

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Urban life - Darcus Howe mourns a great-nephew

• 13 February 2006

My great-nephew was 18 years old: two gunmen ambushed him and ended his life

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Urban life - Darcus Howe swims in polluted waters

• 06 February 2006
• 1 comment

Newspaper staff are invariably hideously white. They do not know; they cannot tell

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Urban life - Darcus Howe refuses to be British

• 30 January 2006

I was born British. But I knew even in boyhood that this did not make me a Britisher

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Urban life - Darcus Howe dips into liquid Trinidad

• 23 January 2006

Trinidad's Hilton hotel is full of hustlers, speaking in myriad tongues, cutting deals

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Urban life - Darcus Howe dumps and icon

• 16 January 2006
• 1 comment

For me, the red postbox is one icon of Englishness we could do without. Let's scrap the lot

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Urban life - Darcus Howe defines Britishness

• 09 January 2006

Racial violence, aimed at destroying love, defines Britishness as we know it

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Urban life - Darcus Howe receives a revealing e-mail from Trinidad

• 12 December 2005

In Trinidad, old politicians are paying the penalty for the emirate's mad gold rush

Urban life - Darcus Howe fails thw Tebbit test

• 05 December 2005

When Trinidad qualified for the World Cup finals, I failed the Tebbit test