Racism
His dark materials
In this giant, prodigiously sourced and insightful biography, John A. Farrell shows how Richard Milhous Nixon was the nightmare of…
Woman of a thousand voices
‘On air, I could be the most glamorous, gorgeous, tall, black-haired female… Whatever I wanted to be, I could be……
The dwarves of death who control your TV
My own fault, I suppose, for turning on the television. Not an action I undertake very regularly these days, because…
Theresa May’s phoney war
Next month, Theresa May is expected to launch her long-awaited audit into racial disparities in public services. We are being…
An orchestrated race storm
A fascinating story has emerged from a north-western leftie quadrant of the United States: the sacking of British conductor Matthew…
Low life
I arrived for lunch a bit late and was led to the dining table. Our hostess disappeared back into the…
Letters
In defence of General Lee Sir: In your leader ‘America’s identity crisis’ (19 August) you state that ‘When General Lee…
Making sense of an unjust world
These three timely works of creative nonfiction explore the question of race: chronicling histories of colonialism and migration; examining the…
Beyond the pale
Setting off to spend a year teaching English in Zhejiang province in south-eastern China, I expected plenty of surprises. But…
A vicious reaction to a very bad word
Having a nigger in the woodpile and a skeleton in the closet are closely related problems, although subtly different. In…
High life
I was going through my paces in Hyde Park, sweating out the booze, raising the heartbeat with short wind sprints,…
The trouble with diversity training
Is diversity training snake oil? According to its proponents, women and minorities are not competing with white men on a…
Donald Trump represents the new normal – on both sides of the Atlantic
What was your favourite response from the liberals to Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election? Actress Emma Watson…
Romans, racism and Sadiq Khan
‘Racism’ refers to the belief in racially determined inferiority, most often recognised in body-type, about which, by definition, nothing can…
Voting Remain is an act of heartless snobbery
One of the interesting features of the Brexit debate is that it has laid bare a schism in British society…
What Labour needs now is a takeover by real left-wing radicals
The party needs real radicalism – it is in the hands of an ugly simulacrum
The new, acceptable face of racism
Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…
Training the horse from hell
There were moments while reading this sprawling, ambitious novel when I thought I was reading a masterpiece. But at other…
‘Do black movies really not sell?’: Don Cheadle on Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle talks to Jasper Rees about the long, hard road to bringing Miles Davis’s life to the big screen
What makes the white working class angry? Twits like Hsiao-Hung Pai
This is a quite remarkable book. Badly written, devoid of anything even vaguely approaching a methodology, patronising, hideously mistaken on…
Beyoncé at the Super Bowl? I prefer the anti-racists of Millwall
My most thrilling moment of 2016 so far — aside from watching a smug-looking woman carrying a copy of the Guardian…
If you’re stupid enough to let migrants in, at least treat them as people
We were on our way to a party in south-east London when my friend, Rob, saw the graffiti. Sprayed with…
Trump’s appeal can be summed up in five words
The Dolly Sisters were off to Davos last week for the World Economic Forum: Nat Rothschild and Sebastian Taylor in…
The Oscars surrender to the golden age of protest
Are we living in a golden age of protest? A bunch of aggrieved citizens only has to raise a murmur…
I hate to admit it, but Spike Lee is right about the Oscars and racism
In 2017 it will be exactly 50 years since a dapper Sidney Poitier announced to Rod Steiger, in the excellent…