Readers respond to Kojo Koram’s article about the Tory preoccupation with dictating our national storyKojo Koram provides a useful corrective to the common, narrow perception of culture he describes (Here’s what the right gets wrong about culture: it’s…
Here’s what the right gets wrong about culture: it’s not fixed, it’s a living thing | Kojo Koram
The Tories see culture as something that needs to be protected, but it’s a shifting landscape transformed by each generationThe culture war, much like the war on drugs or the war on terror, is a metaphorical state that seems fated to go on for ever. Th…
The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
One of Britain’s most influential scholars has spent a lifetime trying to convince people to take race and racism seriously. Are we finally ready to listen?In 2000, the race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust published a report about the “future of…