Last week, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner warned that the effects of immigration and social cohesion, among other factors such as rapid de-industrialisation, was having a profound impact on society and trust in public institutions. However, she expressed the belief that Britain was a successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy – but how right is she? Rayner’s […]
With the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham breaking ranks with Keir Starmer by calling for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, pressure on the UK Government to organise one is intensifying. Following Labour MPs helping to strike down a Tory amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing Bill which called for a statutory inquiry into […]
The Islamist-led rebel offensive in Syria has been executed with devastating effect, ending Bashar al-Assad’s lengthy reign as president and five decades of dynastic rule by the Assad family. The downfall of Assad’s totalitarian regime is not to be mourned – but what do we know of the Syrian rebels? This anti-Assad offensive has been […]
The figures are in. At this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, a total of 334 arrests were made by the Metropolitan Police. Up from the previous year’s 275 arrests, this included dozens for an assault on an emergency worker and possession of an offensive weapon. Along with the 50 police officers injured, there were eight stabbings, with […]
Following recent violent disorder, the debate on whether the Labour Party should officially adopt the working definition of ‘Islamophobia’ developed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims has been reignited. The riots across parts of England (as well as Belfast in Northern Ireland) in the aftermath of the horrific Southport atrocity where three girls were […]
The King’s Speech included official confirmation of the new Labour government’s plans to introduce a new Race Equality Act which intends to ‘enshrine the full right to equal pay in law’. While the legislation will focus to a degree on disability – an oft-overlooked protected characteristic in the world of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) […]
While Thursday’s general election feels very much like a formality – likely resulting in a so-called Labour ‘supermajority’ and one of the worst performances for the Conservative Party in its history – there could be interesting trends which emerge from Britain’s ever-growing ethnic minority population. Fresh polling by YouGov suggests that while Labour is expected […]
Dame Sara Khan has published her independent review on social cohesion and democratic resilience, coming to the damning conclusion that there is ‘no adequate national strategic approach’ to such matters within Whitehall. The human rights activist and counter extremism expert is right. While we are a relatively successful multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-faith democracy in the […]
A ‘Hadith of the Day‘ message displayed at London King’s Cross train station has sparked a debate on freedom of religious expression in the public sphere and the pluralistic model of British democracy. The display showed yesterday’s times for Fajr (a prayer performed by Muslims at the crack of dawn, which marks the commencement of […]
What’s Labour’s grand idea if – as looks likely – they return to government? On Sunday, the shadow women and equalities minister, Anneliese Dodds, announced that ‘the next Labour government will go further to ensure no matter where you live in the UK, and whatever your background, you can thrive’. They will introduce a new […]
The ban on ‘prayer rituals’ at the high-performing Michaela Community School led by the so-called ‘strictest headmistress in Britain’ – Katharine Birbalsingh – is currently being decided on in the courts, with the ruling bound to have wider implications for religious accommodation in the English education system. Birbalsingh has justified the ban on the grounds […]
While the British political Left has been responsible for the importation of American-inspired ‘white privilege’ theories into the UK, there is growing reason to believe that the identitarian rot is deep in both government and the Conservative Party. This week, Ryan Henson – a Tory candidate in the 2019 general election and current member of […]
Yesterday’s net migration figures underscored the reality that the UK is experiencing truly unprecedented flows of immigration under the current Conservative government – dwarfing anything that was witnessed under ‘New Labour’. The latest net migration figure is 745,000, very much in line with the Centre for Policy Studies’ original projection. That compares to a total […]
Britain has had it tough over the past 15 years. The 2008 global financial crisis under ‘New Labour’ was followed by a period of austerity during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. The political and social turbulence surrounding Brexit and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was accompanied by the Covid-19 pandemic, which thrust […]
The shock return of former PM David Cameron to frontline politics seems to have eclipsed appointment of James Cleverly as Home Secretary. However, the latter will prove far more significant for the Conservatives’ long-term electoral prospects. Cleverly’s predecessor, Suella Braverman, sealed her fate with a recent op-ed in the Times. The article, while raising reasonable […]
The role of faith and religion in British society is one that continues to be much contested. Britain has witnessed rapid mainstream secularisation – as demonstrated by the fact that from 2001 to 2021, the number of residents in England and Wales who identified as Christian dropped from 71.7% to 46.2% (the first time less […]
Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s speech in Washington DC has sparked controversy among staunch defenders of ‘multiculturalism’ – but do they know what they are defending? Braverman’s declaration that ‘multiculturalism has failed’ is nothing new – indeed, David Cameron made the very same point during a 2011 security conference in Munich. But the difference this time […]
In the build-up to the next UK general election, the ongoing cost-of-living crisis – especially stubbornly high food prices – is likely to be at the front and centre of British politics. While Labour appears to be on course for a return to government, there are still important questions to ask about its positions on […]
Not content with blaming the so-called ‘culture wars’ for the recent homophobic attack in Clapham, Sadiq Khan has now cemented his position as Labour’s identitarian-in-chief by embroiling himself in a race row. It has been reported that on the Mayor of London’s website included a photo of a young white family with the caption ‘does […]
There’s no event so horrific that Sadiq Khan won’t try to mine some kind of political capital from it. So it proved with the awful homophobic attack outside a south London nightclub late on Sunday night. True to form, the Mayor of London tweeted that ‘those who stoke up hate and vilify LGBTQ+ people’ bear […]
