Simon Woolley: “We changed the colour, but we didn’t change the nature of British politics”
The founder and activist on running a Cambridge college
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Labour MPs complain about minister’s race remarks
The Pygge has already seen one formal complaint from a Labour MP to their whip after Mike Tapp’s comments
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The English have begun to hate
The online anti-immigration movement has discovered a buried form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism
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Kerry James Marshall’s nuanced vision of black lives
The painter’s retrospective at the Royal Academy presents a sweeping challenge to Western art’s exclusion of African-American figures
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Black Power Desk reminds us that protest suppression is nothing new
Urielle Klein-Mekongo’s 1970s-set musical explores the consequences of state overreach
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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The new racism of the British right
As seen in a recent GB News interview, conservatives have developed a new way to pathologise black people.
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Diane Abbott and the truth about British racism
Her comments on Radio 4 simply reflect a broader failure to discuss racism with care and nuance.
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The bastards of neoliberalism
The eccentrics of the new right aren’t rebelling against our political regime – they are its twisted successors.
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Robert Jenrick and the myth of “two-tier justice”
New sentencing guidelines have become the tool of cynical politicians playing divide-and-conquer politics.
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Nickel Boys is ambitious, immersive and alienating
The confident and provocative film offers style over connection.
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The left case against slavery reparations
Black Britain should not be chained to the scars of the past.
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Origin: an awkward adaptation of complex race theory
Ava DuVernay’s take on Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is a lesson in the history of prejudice – and the perils of…
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Tory divisions over Rwanda reflect the wider anti-migrant mood across Europe
As far-right parties surge on the continent, Britain’s staunch multiculturalism is starting to look a little lonely.
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Europe’s race delusions
Built on imperial amnesia and competing nationalisms, the EU has never been the beacon of inclusion it claims to be.
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Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left
The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
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America is nothing more than a self-help society
On both the left and the right, political radicalism has given way to cultish self-improvement.
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Why affirmative action failed
Higher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.
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Was Windrush a dream or a nightmare?
The story of black Britain cannot be reduced to a myth.
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Against race essentialism
Black identity is a reality, not an idea.
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