Racism

I’ve loved ‘Fast Car’ for years – it’s one of those songs that sticks with you, and occasionally you feel the need to listen to it for no other reason than you haven’t heard it in a while. When I got my newest phone, I wanted to have it...

I watched The Greatest Showman at The Savoy for the third time this weekend (yes, you heard that right, I’ve watched it three times) and it got me thinking. YES it’s a great film, YES it has a fab cast, and YES it has an even better soundtrack, but...

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As if the Conservative Party needed more bad publicity after the lacklustre response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the DUP deal and the intense pressure regarding public sector pay, Anne Marie Morris, a Tory backbencher was recorded using a racially offensive term on Monday at a conference of Eurosceptics...

A recent trend in the cultural sphere is the historical appropriation of works bearing racist titles. This is linked to the broader social discussion on why racism is still alive and kicking. The art world was treated to a novel pursuit taken up by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which...

To question whether Britain is racist is for many an uncomfortable, loaded and ugly question. In a recent BBC programme and Guardian article, Mona Chalabi asks the pertinent question, ‘is Britain racist?’ In the show she attends an English Defence league protest, has three people of different race spend...

In light of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Muslims are facing fiercely racist and Islamaphobic backlash in public and online. A 43 year old beautician was arrested under Section 19 of the POA by Thames Valley Police after people complained about the following post; “Blinks of Bicester are...