Essays & Opinion
Summary of the House of Commons meeting on the rise of anti-Semitism in schools
Daniel Ben-Ami is a writer and journalist with an interest in the relationship between contemporary anti-Semitism and identity politics. We asked him to report back on an event to launch a new report from the Henry Jackson Society (HJS). We also asked Charlotte Littlewood, one of the speakers from the HJS, if she wished to […]
Book review: ‘Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain’ by Ed Husain
Book review by Graeme Kemp The question of belonging in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation is the stuff of many a political and sociological text. Ed Husain draws on ethnography to give us a more granular description of various Muslim groups whose differences are more than geography alone. Graeme Kemp’s review brings out a crucially […]
The Guardian’s apology for its slavery links is a performance
The campaigning liberal newspaper has ‘discovered’ its links to slavery, and issued an overwrought apology. Why?, asks James Heartfield.
A primary teacher’s experience of anti-racist training
In September, all the staff in my primary school in East London took part in training, titled ‘Working Towards an Anti-Racist Curriculum’. The training was run by Global Learning London, who explained that we were going to move from a non-racist school to an anti-racist school. They explained that this would be a tough and […]
