If the Tory leadership race produces an Asian prime minister, we might have something to celebrate
In the troubled passage towards living together in a multicultural democracy, Rishi Sunak’s election would be a moment to cherish.
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From the NS archive: Labelled
15 March 1985: To be a writer and to be black in Britain is to be in a corner.
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The threat of Viktor Orbán’s anti-mixed race speech
The Hungarian prime minister describes the world European and American conservatives are trying to create.
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The limits of black and white thinking
Ibram X Kendi’s new book, How to Raise an Antiracist, is overly simplistic and dogmatic.
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It’s absurd to say the Conservative Party isn’t ready for a non-white leader
The suggestion that ethnic minority Tories have betrayed their identity is its own form of racism.
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The Policy Ask with Jabeer Butt: “Unless you have a safe place to live, everything else falls apart”
The charity CEO on supporting parents, working for structural change and making tomorrow better than today.
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How the empire degraded Britain
Three new histories reveal the corrosive effects of colonialism and slavery on today’s British politics.
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Gary Lineker isn’t wrong to say he suffered racist abuse
True anti-racists know the boundaries of who is “white” are blurred – race isn’t biologically real.
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The battle for Eileen Gu
The Olympic freestyle skier and the geopolitics of the exceptional amid an intensifying China-US rivalry.
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Why are most University Challenge contestants white men?
Watching the often testosterone-fuelled Oxbridge elite engage in a battle of the intellects under the watchful eye of Jeremy Paxman has…
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Forward Prize-winning poet Claudia Rankine on what it means to be black in America
“Only looking back do I gather up the moments.”
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