Sarah Pochin’s comments shouldn’t have sparked a war
The Reform MP was right to apologise for her offensive remark about race in advertising. But the ongoing row shows…
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The Trump regime wants to make America white again
Maga is calling for naturalised citizens to be denied the same rights as US-born ones
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Exclusive: Racist attacks on public transport rise 67 per cent in three years
The British public are no longer ashamed of their bigotry
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Birmingham doesn’t like Robert Jenrick either
Handsworth is defying the sneers of the shadow justice secretary
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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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Speak for England, Big John
In the face of racist attacks, the food influencer represents a form of patriotism that is modest and decent.
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Shabana Mahmood and the rise of English white nationalism
The generosity of our moral imagination has collapsed, and been replaced by taunts and bigotry.
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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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Mothin Ali: “There’s a lot of racism on the left”
The Green Party councillor on running for the deputy leadership, riots, Islam and race in Britain.
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How do we keep the lid on race-related violence?
A year ago the far right rampaged on our streets. Now officials fear another summer of discord.
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Maga zealots want to redraft the Civil Rights Act
Tribal white politics has once again found a place at the heart of American power.
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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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Lucy Connolly is not a political prisoner
Weaponising the imprisoned mother doesn’t help her.
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The dark reality behind Trump’s embrace of white South Africans
The president has granted refugee status to Afrikaners, while blocking asylum for everyone else.
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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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Josephine Baker’s French exit
The singer-turned-spy is just one of many 20th-century artists who fled American racism and escaped to Europe.
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Letter of the week: Racism, riots and reality
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Inside Diane Abbott’s war with Labour
The MP’s memoir A Woman Like Me reveals a remarkable life spent fighting prejudice – and her own party.
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How racist are British schools?
Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The…
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