For 14 years, the Conservatives and their friends in the media whipped up racism and Islamophobia. These riots are the result.
Category: racism
Agrarian Populism
Farmers’ protests are being embraced by the far right. The precedents are chilling.
Thriving on Catastrophe
Why the climate crisis and the global rise of fascism are inextricable.
Hard Landing
A self-perpetuating political spiral is blocking the easier ways of preventing environmental collapse.
Don’t Move, Don’t Stop
The Police Bill would criminalise an entire minority: it’s as if nothing has been learnt from the 20th Century.
Borderline
The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19.
Population Panic
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
Lying In State
History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities.
Performative Oppression
The government proposes the cultural cleansing of the Romani and Traveller life from Britain.
Screened Out
For some of those immersed in virtual worlds, everything loses its meaning – even racism and fascism.
China Syndrome
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.
As It Happened …
A letter to the Travellers’ Solidarity Network.
The Holocaust We Will Not See
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
The New Chauvinism
Why should I love this country?
Adventure playground
Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs
The Immigrants the Tabloids Love
The rightwing campaign against economic migrants may not be as irrational as it appears.
Acceptable Hatred
Beneath the enduring hostility to Gypsies lies an ancient envy of the nomadic life
Black Shirts in Green Trousers
The far right is moving in, and greens and globalisation campaigners must do more to shut it out.
Race War
Racial profiling threatens to widen the conflict for which Bush and Blair are preparing.
We Share the Blame for Zimbabwe
Britain’s Debt to its People Runs into Billions