Race

Simon Winlow, Steve Hall and James Treadwell, authors of 'The Rise of the Right', discuss the recent UK riots and reflect on the demanding political task of building a genuinely inclusive society and economy.…Read more

Two Convivial Thinkers ask whether higher ed can really ‘decolonise development’ when only some voices are heard and others are silenced. We must still aim to dismantle the logics of neoliberal academia, however daunting. …Read more

As part of the Academics Stand Against Poverty blog series, Georgia van Toorn, Joanna Redden, Lina Dencik, Jess Brand and colleagues challenge Labour to resist the temptation to rely on technological solutions such as AI to tackle the structural problems of poverty and inequality.…Read more

Hindpal Singh Bhui of HM Inspectorate of Prisons looks back at the politics of imprisonment, at the disproportionate numbers of minority ethnic prisoners, and the role prison played in replacing slavery as a means of controlling Black people.…Read more

John Kendall, author of 'Regulating Police Detention', asks why the 23 deaths in policy custody each year in England and Wales, and one suicide per week after detention, don’t attract more concern.…Read more

The authors of a recent article in Emotions and Society share their research into white supremacist beliefs and ask how you deradicalise someone whose racist views are based on intuitive or emotional pathways.…Read more

Anne-Marie Greenslade, contributor to 'Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking', examines the government’s continued attempt to paint migrants as exploitative and not genuine victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. …Read more

On the anniversary of the Electoral Administration Act 2006, Henry Tam charts the insidious moves by Conservative-led governments to undermine democratic participation. …Read more

Terri Givens author 'Radical Empathy' considers how the book has sparked new thinking on how to create a sense of inclusion within any environment. …Read more

Chris Cunneen, author of 'Defund the Police', regrets the limits of the Casey report proposals and suggests that they follow a well-trodden path of police reformism which leaves the nature of police power unchanged. …Read more