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The Activist - Forged in the Fires of Junglism

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Fascism in England and How to Defeat It

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The Forde Report

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I Wore a Raspberry Beret

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Understanding Disability: Like me, you are different. Like you, I am equal

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The Information War

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In 2022 Why Do We Still Show Such Loyalty To Royalty?

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“Some People Are Gaysian – Get Over It!”

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Bad enough MPs are gaslighting us about food poverty, will the trolls please just stop?

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True Victims of Domestic Abuse Don’t Have Teeth

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Nationalism and racial classification in Hong Kong

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Does the BBC’s ‘due impartiality’ need to include extremist figures?

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The Weeknd’s lyrics are the tip of a queerphobic iceberg

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A beginner’s guide to freelance writing

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Let’s say goodbye to respectability, and welcome assertiveness (Part 2)

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Let’s say goodbye to respectability, and welcome assertiveness (Part 1)

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The Colour of Madness ‘The mental health system is not designed with us in mind’

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‘Mrs Bibi Syndrome’, the medical stereotype undermining elderly Asian women

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Life in the Rohingya refugee camps

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How British were the Caribbean soldiers of the First World War?

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‘Time exists only in white’: deconstructing the history of Brazilian nationhood

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Melanie Phillips wants to “destroy” the “Muslim world”

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Britain’s young imams: rebels, feminists, YouTubers, traditionalists

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Three times a widow in Afghanistan

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In developing countries, climate change is destroying our communities first

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Political class factionalism and the right-wing takeover of the Republican Party

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WWF, human rights abuses and the need to decolonise conservation

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How we study music: navigating the whitewash

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Why I’m no longer talking to… well, anyone… about religion

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The minimising of the sexual assault of Black boys

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A never-ending affair – India, Pakistan and Kashmir

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Women vs The State - Hard Talk: When the State is the Perpetrator

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The Student to Activist Pipeline and Its Flaws

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Labour’s local election lies and the sham of democracy

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The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence

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How language makes and unmakes our world: French language policies in Algeria

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How language makes and unmakes our world: French language policies in Algeria, storytelling, and post-colonial recovery – Part 2

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Black women as agents of change: reclaiming our narratives, voices and memory

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How to decolonise the university

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Decolonial Fantasy Lands

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Does Black music need to “get its house in order?”

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White feminists’ views on Shamima Begum are a failure for all young women of colour

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Femonationalism: White saviour feminism in Afghanistan

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The Tory’s Economic Model Kills the Most Vulnerable

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Bend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism

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Chasing James Baldwin in Switzerland

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Black British histories didn’t start in 1948

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Ramadan in Yemen

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Poetic Resistance to the language of “Civilised” Citizenship

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What will they do with state power?

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EXCLUSIVE: Criminalising homelessness is a cruel use of the law

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EXCLUSIVE: The Police, Protests, and Me

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Ten key facts that undermine the Sewell report’s conclusions and highlight why the Government is wrong on race

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In Europe, just when does the human cost of war begin to matter?

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The Governments response to the roundly discredited Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report Chaired by Dr Tony Sewell has finally been published

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The NHS is still failing Black women – and the pandemic hasn’t helped

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Child Q’s Case is a Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power. Both Racism and Child Abuse Need to be Addressed

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Letter from an IPP prisoner

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Black Publishers and White Agents

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The Real Trojan Affair

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“UK prisoners serving inhumane indefinite sentences may have lost appeals for their freedom because non-existent offences had been wrongly included in their files”

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Is It Even A Protest If Your Oppressor Gave You Permission?

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The War in Ukraine and the Ugly Face of Racism

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Amidst Russian-Ukraine Tussle, Nigerians try to breathe

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Why I’m Fundraising A Tank for Ukraine At My Local Mosque

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Liz Truss supports Britons to go and fight for Ukraine – while removing citizenship of others

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PART 1. The Information War - Samantha Asumadu interviews author and broadcaster Matt Potter

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An open letter on the reporting of Ukraine: Do not let people of colour be a casualty of war

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Blackstar Britain: The Journey to Publication

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Who will confront the New Labour threat?

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Race rewritten: Brown Gypsy erasure in British media

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Windrush, welfare and caring for history

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Government responded to 315k “Remove Clause 9 from the Nationality and Borders Bill” petition

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Joint letter from 100 Civil Society Figures Opposing the Nationality and Borders Bill

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Dialect snobbery reinforces power in the British class system

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Islamophobia Is Having A Moment. But I Have Questions…

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War Inna Diaspora | THE TWERKING GIRL

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THEATRE REVIEW | Queens of Sheba: If you know, you know

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Priti Patel is smashing glass ceilings not windows

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Media Diversified View: The #Colston4 acquittal raises questions of whose activism gets to be celebrated

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The Nationality and Borders Bill raises uncomfortable questions about our “British” Identity

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Why We Should Stop Using The Term Karen

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Inside the strikes: When ‘being realistic’ is social value reduced to pure economics

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How technology abuse enables gendered violence and femicide

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Trojan Horse: A failure of British journalism. And that includes The Observer

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Trojan Horse: And then they came for me | THE TWERKING GIRL

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RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR ANNOTATIONS

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Britain is Just as Culpable as Saudi Arabia for the War in Yemen

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Dr. Nafeez Ahmed’s guide to the eight unprecedented and undemocratic bills that the Tories are trying to pass this year

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A Valentine Letter to Rt Hon Sir Keir Rodney Starmer MP

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Where were South Africa’s enslaved people from?

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Zwarte Piet is a product of the Netherlands’ long involvement in the slave trade

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An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade

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Violence towards Africans in India has roots in Anti-Blackness that has existed for centuries

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Skin whitening creams – the movement for change

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Shamima Begum: What does the perfect victim look like?

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The co-opting of Black culture in the South Asian diaspora, hip hop and the n-word

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Blackface and anti-Blackness in Bollywood – an endemic problem

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Anti-blackness in South Asian communities – how do we break the cycle?

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For bell hooks