Book review: ‘Me and White Supremacy’ by Layla F Saad
Graeme Kemp argues that Layla F Saad’s book is wrong to promote ideas like ‘white privilege’ and ignore the value of ‘colour-blind’ approaches to dealing with racism.
Mainstreaming jihad
/in Essays and opinion/by DDU TeamPrakash Shah argues that the left’s identification of revolutionary potential in Islamic fundamentalism is creating a paradigmatic shift in a public understanding in which Islamist fundamentalism, once associated with criminal violence, is now associated with ‘resistance’.
Sean Corby: what my dad taught me and why I fight for my belief
/in Essays and opinion/by DDU TeamSean Corby explains why he felt he had to take a stand against his employer’s attempts to tell him what opinions he could express at work.
Is English cricket racist, and is much more EDI needed?
/in Essays and opinion/by DDU TeamA lifelong England cricket fan considers the recent report of the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket, ahead of the formal response from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
A secondary school teacher’s experience of anti-racism
/in Essays and opinion, School voices/by ddu-adminThe author is a secondary teacher of many years who wishes to remain anonymous. The summer term of 2020, still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was spent doing online learning as schools were still closed. We had got into a fairly good routine, albeit with online lessons. It is a school in the […]
Book reviews: Minority Reports
/in Essays and opinion/by ddu-adminProfessor Eric Kaufman reviews a group of recent books by Rakib Ehsan, Sunder Katwala, Remi Adekoya and Tomiwa Owolade.
Against Decolonisation
/in Essays and opinion/by ddu-adminJim Butcher reviews Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
Book review: ‘Beyond Grievance: What the left gets wrong about ethnic minorities’
/in Essays and opinion/by ddu-adminGraeme Kemp proclaims Rakib Ehsan’s book as an invaluable contribution to the debate about race and identity politics in the UK today.
Review: Imperial Heartland by David Holland, Cambridge University Press
/in Essays and opinion/by ddu-adminHardeep Singh explores a fascinating history that offers complex human realities instead of reductive moralising fables.
Once more unto the breach: arguments against decolonisation
/in Essays and opinion/by ddu-adminRichard Norrie argues that decolonising universities will produce a poorer curriculum and ever-greater bureaucratic interference. Those who have really put themselves on the line to fight racism, like Nelson Mandela (aged 19, above), were inspired by the very philosophy and literature today’s radicals reject. We often find ourselves having to get to grips with new […]
