The lie doesn't have to create the racial stereotype. It only has to activate what society already carries.

Andy Burnham has opened the argument about power. The harder question is whether politicians are prepared to share it.

Proffesor Jason Arday has questions to answer, but his mistakes must not become an indictment of Black academics, EDI or the legitimacy of Black advancement.

Labour’s Race Equality Engagement Group promised to carry Black voices into the heart of government. Its first report reveals something rather different: consultation without power, participation with

The Lawrence surveillance scandal exposes the moral inversion at the heart of British policing: failure for victims, intelligence and intrusion for those who demanded justice.

🚨 NEW ON SUBSTACK Two years to build. Five minutes to throw away. Four years after the Police Race Action Plan was launched with unprecedented support from police leaders and Black civil society, it...

How Britain turned citizenship from a democratic right into a racialised privilege.

The death of Henry Nowak deserves justice, not political appropriation. Yet before the facts are established, his tragedy is already being used to wage a wider war on race equality.

Yves Sakila died in Dublin. Lain Estridge died in Liverpool. One was reduced to an allegation. One risks being buried in the language of reasonable suspicion. Both should already be national names.

The Mayor’s new community scrutiny plan borrows the language of Black-led accountability but strips out the power, pa

By Lee Jasper, on how grievance became a business model and British democracy became its product

25 March marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yet for the modern African diaspora, this is not simply a matter of remembrance. It is

What Happened to Belfast’s Multicultural Centre Should Alarm the Whole UK

Stop and Search, Democratic Failure and the Case for a London Policing Charter

Stop and Search, Democratic Failure and the Case for a London Policing Charter

A historical analysis of how comparing Black people to apes became a tool of racial dehumanisation — and why its resurgence should alarm us all

A historical analysis of how comparing Black people to apes became a tool of racial dehumanisation — and why its resurgence should alarm us all

The killing of Chris Kaba and the quiet rewriting of police accountability By Lee Jasper

Why the weakening of vetting standards had nothing to do with diversity and everything to do with leadership failure, absent lived experience and the soft bigotry of low expectations

We need a new approach to politics - the old ways are failing and we\re heading for ecological, political, economic and social disaster. The question is what to be done? This my response. Love to...