The day I met Tommy Robinson
Last week Lejla Kuric met the former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) Tommy Robinson. This is what she found out.
Racism
Black supremacist music: a reaction to historical oppression, or something more sinister?
Don’t gloss over the ugliness of black supremacist music but don’t condemn the entire cultural movement out of hand.
Amazon is selling a racist ‘golly’ costume
Amazon is selling a racist fancy dress costume.
For young black people to fulfil their potential, we cannot focus on racial inequality alone
We must address issues of class and social mobility that are holding people – of all colours and identities – back, writes Chuka Ummuna.
We must stop this illogical, economically damaging and ultimately racist law
The government is proposing a pilot scheme starting in November to ask visitors from India, Nigeria, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh to pay a cash bond of £3,000 for a visitor visa that allows them to stay in the UK for up to six months.
The English Defence League LGBT division: the dark side of the rainbow
Mostly male, shaven-headed and white, they can be found in almost any of Britain’s urban centres – a jostling crowd beneath a thicket of placards and Crosses of St. George.
UKIP MEPs back far-right leader Le Pen
UKIP MEPs have voted against a move by the European Parliament to remove the immunity of French far-right leader and MEP Marine Le Pen after French prosecutors opened a case against her for comments she made about Muslims.
Don’t turn Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer into free speech martyrs
The anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate (HNH) has started a petition to prevent two American bloggers from being given permission to enter the UK.
Anti-Muslim incidents and the Woolwich attack: an initial appraisal
There’s no one, easy solution to this problem, and the origins of hatred and prejudice are extremely complex. However the first step should be to recognise that anti-Muslim incidents like these are a serious problem in their own right, and in a just and fair society, no one should be subject to this sort of violence and prejudice.
UKIP: dumbed down Powellism
It’s something of a love that dare not speak its name, but Powellism has remained a major subtext on the British right for something like half a century, and the rise of UKIP marks only the latest incarnation of this ongoing infatuation.