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Defending the Human Rights Act
by Tanzil Chowdhury Follow @tchowdhury88 The new Justice Secretary Liz Truss, and the third non-lawyer in a row to be appointed for the position, recently gave evidence to the House of Common’s Justice...
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Trustee of the Future: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
by Rahila Gupta Follow @RahilaG There has been widespread disappointment that the UN missed a trick in not electing a woman as its new secretary general. Given the scandals that have dogged it, general...
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The unbearable whiteness of history
by Jendella Benson Follow @JENDELLA Deciding that it is never too early to take the task of cultural reproduction seriously (see David Osa Amadasun’s article, “‘Black people don’t go to galleries’ –...
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Denial, shame and the Armenian Genocide
by Robert Kazandjian Follow @RKazandjian The identity I was constructing for myself collapsed around my L.A-Gear-clad feet when I was six or seven. My friend Kirilos arrived from Sudan, and joined our...
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‘What’s the word P*ki between friends?’
By Ciaran Thapar When I was seven, during a game of playground football in Claygate, a small town in Surrey, I fell over and bashed my knee; “P*ki, are you okay?” one of my teammates asked, his bony...
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Waiting for body parts: 22 years after the Srebrenica genocide, families...
by Mo Saqib Follow @mo_saqib I spent an evening with 31-year-old Ahmed Hrustanovic, an imam at Srebrenica’s main mosque. We sat with our iced teas on the balcony of Hotel Alic next door, with a lovely...
View ArticleThe Nationality and Borders Bill evokes a chilling history for the UK’s East...
Clause 9 of the UK Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill exempts the government from giving notice of a decision to deprive a person of citizenship if they believe the person can apply for...
View ArticleBlack British histories didn’t start in 1948
Anti-Black racism and the hostile environment have a long history. For Tré Ventour Griffiths, the interwar years of 1919-1938 deserve more recognition in how we understand British history. Following...
View ArticleBend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism
Assessing Bend It Like Beckham in the social and political context of Blairism, Sacha Ismail considers the Gate Gourmet industrial dispute at Heathrow and union bureaucracies’ longstanding failure to...
View ArticleHow British were the Caribbean soldiers of the First World War?
During Black History Month 2018, Samuel Ali challenges the idea that African and Caribbean soldiers served to support British troops, not as British troops in WW1 Read More
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