Was Windrush a dream or a nightmare?
The story of black Britain cannot be reduced to a myth.
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Tomiwa Owolade
Tomiwa Owolade is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of the forthcoming book This is Not America.
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How immigration is revitalising British churches.
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The historian is right that Britain’s colonial legacy is morally complex. So why is his defence of it so…
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America’s oldest shame is violence, not racism
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The narcissism of anti-racist therapy
Race experts are pushing flimsy solutions to real problems.
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a…
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George Santos shows that the right is as fixated with identity as the left
The mendacious Republican’s unquestioned claims about his Jewish heritage and sexuality demonstrate we should stick to the facts.
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Beneath the culture wars, we are not nearly so binary
It is possible to both view climate change as an existential crisis and support JK Rowling’s view on trans…
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The false promise of grammar schools
In his new book, A Revolution Betrayed, Peter Hitchens overstates the merits of selection in state education.
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