Racism
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…
Is there a difference between being prejudiced and being a connoisseur of prejudice?
Paul Minx ventures boldly into Tennessee Williams country with The Long Road South. It’s 1965 and the Price family are…
‘I’m a racist. My sister’s a racist. We’re all racists here’
My sister has a new man in her life: Henry, 60. He lives in a gay hotel. Or rather, it…
I went to Pedro’s Tex Mex Cantina to claim my racist sombrero
Pedro’s Tex-Mex Cantina is a fantastical shack near a ring road in Norwich. It was recently asked to stop handing…
What the Great British Bake Off really says about Britain
There was an interesting news item on the television the other day. A transgendered chap was hoping to become the…
Turning back refugee boats saves lives - as Australia found out
Turning back boats saves lives
Serena Williams is an all-time great – but is it wrong not to declare her the greatest?
Serena Williams, according to some commentators the greatest woman who has ever graced this earth of ours, will complete the…
Think ‘migrant’ is an insult? ‘Refugee’ can be too
Al Jazeera, the Qatari broadcaster, is going to use refugee instead of migrant in its English output. ‘The umbrella term…
How to help black boys afraid of ‘acting white’
Black British boys are being held back by fear of betraying their background. Immigrant children know how to deal with that
The wonders of the Muslim world that my children will never get to see
I celebrated Eid in a sandy bay in Sri Lanka, watching from the warm, shallow sea as gaggles of local…
Barometer: Where could Lewis Hamilton go and not wear a tie?
Ties that bind Lewis Hamilton was ejected from the royal box at Wimbledon for not wearing a tie. Some places…
Go Set a Watchman should never have been hyped as a ‘landmark new novel’, says Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher on the tangled history of To Kill a Mockingbird’s much-anticipated ‘sequel’
The Proms is taxpayers’ money well spent: it’s a national asset like fish and chips and the royal baby
Make no mistake: the Proms, whose 2015 season was launched last night, would not, could not, exist without the BBC,…
Roger Mosey and the questions you don’t ask at the BBC
There was a remarkable scene in one BBC Today programme morning meeting in about 1995, as all the producers gathered…
The subject of immigration has become a means of entrapment
When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…
Eritrean migrants face many dangers. Are we one of them?
A few weeks ago someone very dear to me passed on a question about The Spectator, asked them by a…
An innocent abroad defies South Africa’s insane colour code
At the eye of apartheid South Africa’s storm of insanities was a mania for categorisation. Everything belonged in its place,…
Racism, paedophilia and an inverted Snow White
God Help the Child, Toni Morrison’s 11th novel, hearkens back to two of her earliest. Like The Bluest Eye, it…
