Rakib Ehsan, Author at CapX

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Another quango is no magic bullet for social cohesion

Rakib Ehsan - 25 Mar 2024

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Preferential treatment has no place in multi-faith Britain

Rakib Ehsan - 20 Mar 2024

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Labour's racial equality plans are divisive and unnecessary

Rakib Ehsan - 6 Feb 2024

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School prayer bans don't make Britain a secular state

Rakib Ehsan - 29 Jan 2024

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Identitarianism is rotting British social policy

Rakib Ehsan - 14 Dec 2023

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Our political establishment is addicted to immigration

Rakib Ehsan - 24 Nov 2023

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Keeping the faith – how religious belief can strengthen British society

Rakib Ehsan - 22 Nov 2023

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Why the Tories' electoral future is in the new Home Secretary's hands

Rakib Ehsan - 13 Nov 2023

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You've got to have faith – how religion can help promote economic advancement

Rakib Ehsan - 18 Oct 2023

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Suella Braverman is right – integration is essential in a multi-racial democracy

Rakib Ehsan - 27 Sep 2023

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How should Labour approach the 'culture wars'?

Rakib Ehsan - 4 Sep 2023

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Anti-white bigotry is the inevitable consequence of Sadiq Khan's toxic identitarianism

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Aug 2023

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In Sadiq Khan's world everyone else is a 'culture warrior'

Rakib Ehsan - 17 Aug 2023

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Labour's Ruislip-up: why the by-election surprise was about more than just ULEZ

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Jul 2023

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Racism report will leave ethnic minority cricket lovers stumped

Rakib Ehsan - 27 Jun 2023

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Sky-high net migration is a political crisis – so how will the Government deal with it?

Rakib Ehsan - 25 May 2023

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Picking your battles: can Britain really 'train up' legions of farm workers?

Rakib Ehsan - 15 May 2023

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The Coronation showed Charles is a truly modern, multicultural monarch

Rakib Ehsan - 9 May 2023

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Why Diane Abbott should no longer sit as a Labour MP

Rakib Ehsan - 24 Apr 2023

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Arguments about a 'new elite' distract from a much bigger problem

Rakib Ehsan - 14 Apr 2023

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The scourge of grooming gangs demands real solutions, not just punchy rhetoric

Rakib Ehsan - 3 Apr 2023

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As Baroness Casey's report makes clear, the Met needs much more than mere 'reform'

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Mar 2023

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Britain needs a 'new deal' for social cohesion

Rakib Ehsan - 8 Feb 2023

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After a crazy January transfer window, the case for a new football regulator has never been clearer

Rakib Ehsan - 2 Feb 2023

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We should take the UN's blinkered view of Britain with a pinch of salt

Rakib Ehsan - 17 Jan 2023

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A firm target on asylum is welcome, but ministers have an awful lot of work to do

Rakib Ehsan - 14 Dec 2022

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The census shows a country that is ever more diverse – and ever more secular

Rakib Ehsan - 30 Nov 2022

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English football is still in urgent need of reform – and a regulator fans can have faith in

Rakib Ehsan - 25 Nov 2022

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British ethnic minorities expect fairness – not favours

Rakib Ehsan - 18 Nov 2022

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Interlocking crises are creating fertile ground for far-right extremism

Rakib Ehsan - 7 Nov 2022

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Why Michael Gove is right when it comes to defining 'Islamophobia'

Rakib Ehsan - 31 Oct 2022

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Ethnic minority voters care far more about Sunak's substance than his identity

Rakib Ehsan - 24 Oct 2022

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A police force riddled with racism and misogyny can't keep London safe

Rakib Ehsan - 18 Oct 2022

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James O'Brien is entitled to criticise Suella Braverman's policies – but leave her race out of it

Rakib Ehsan - 6 Oct 2022

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Starmer's big pitch to Middle England has thrown down the gauntlet to Liz Truss

Rakib Ehsan - 27 Sep 2022

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Disorder in Leicester is a reminder that we can't take social cohesion for granted

Rakib Ehsan - 20 Sep 2022

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Elizabeth II was a Queen for all Britons, of all ethnicities and religions

Rakib Ehsan - 13 Sep 2022

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Britain's social fabric is tattered – putting families first is the key to repairing it

Rakib Ehsan - 1 Sep 2022

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The leaked report on illegal migrants show an asylum system that is not fit for purpose

Rakib Ehsan - 11 Aug 2022

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A decade on, how should we assess the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics?

Rakib Ehsan - 27 Jul 2022

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Forget talk of 'sell-outs' and 'coconuts' – the Tories' diversity is something to celebrate, not disparage

Rakib Ehsan - 13 Jul 2022

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It's raining men – but that's no cause for celebration

Rakib Ehsan - 1 Jul 2022

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The horrifying Oldham report once more underlines the state's failure to protect vulnerable children

Rakib Ehsan - 22 Jun 2022

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Britain has made great progress in the Queen's 70-year reign – but there is no room for complacency

Rakib Ehsan - 1 Jun 2022

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Can a Tory emphasis on crime blunt Labour's cost of living attacks?

Rakib Ehsan - 10 May 2022

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Triumph and tribulation: Labour's London performance can't mask its provincial problems

Rakib Ehsan - 6 May 2022

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Rehab vs radicalisation: how to stop Islamists spreading their poison on the prison estate

Rakib Ehsan - 28 Apr 2022

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Brexit

New immigration figures show just how 'racist' Brexit Britain really is

Rakib Ehsan - 20 Apr 2022

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While Britain fights for democracy abroad, we can't ignore the crisis of confidence at home

Rakib Ehsan - 12 Apr 2022

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Integration has become a 'political orphan' in search of a home

Rakib Ehsan - 16 Mar 2022

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We should welcome Ukrainian refugees – but wealthier areas need to take in their fair share

Rakib Ehsan - 10 Mar 2022

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The attack on Ukraine has shown Brexit Britain the limits of its Commonwealth ties

Rakib Ehsan - 8 Mar 2022

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Britain must do more to help Ukrainians fleeing Putin's war machine

Rakib Ehsan - 28 Feb 2022

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Crude claims about race and the energy crisis show just how little credibility Labour has left

Rakib Ehsan - 14 Feb 2022

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This damning grooming report is a wake-up call: political correctness must never trump child safety

Rakib Ehsan - 8 Feb 2022

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The extraordinary success of the British-Chinese community is a lesson to us all

Rakib Ehsan - 1 Feb 2022

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Must do better: the Conservatives are missing a golden opportunity to woo Muslim voters

Rakib Ehsan - 24 Jan 2022

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After the Texas synagogue siege, we must face up to antisemitism among British Muslims

Rakib Ehsan - 17 Jan 2022

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Labour's figures sound alarming, but race and prosperity in Britain is far from black and white

Rakib Ehsan - 4 Jan 2022

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2021 was the year that trust in politics hit rock bottom

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Dec 2021

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Calling the vaccine-hesitant 'stupid' is both cruel and counter-productive

Rakib Ehsan - 13 Dec 2021

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There's nothing 'inclusive' about avoiding the word Christmas

Rakib Ehsan - 2 Dec 2021

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When it comes to racism in cricket, we should listen to Shahzad as well as Rafiq

Rakib Ehsan - 22 Nov 2021

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Political correctness must not obscure the fight against violent jihadism

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Oct 2021

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Boris' optimistic speech hammered home his biggest advantage over Labour

Rakib Ehsan - 7 Oct 2021

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Brexit

Starmer's speech offered nothing to the voters who abandoned Labour

Rakib Ehsan - 30 Sep 2021

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Exploiting Emma Raducanu's victory to peddle a leftist agenda is a double fault for democracy

Rakib Ehsan - 13 Sep 2021

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We must not let ideologues paint a false picture of British Muslim attitudes

Rakib Ehsan - 10 Sep 2021

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Asia

Afghanistan's Uyghurs face a double threat – we must not forget them

Rakib Ehsan - 2 Sep 2021

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Asia

Twenty years on, the British public have a very different view on intervention abroad

Rakib Ehsan - 23 Aug 2021

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The Plymouth attack underscores the grave threat of 'Mixed Ideology' attackers

Rakib Ehsan - 16 Aug 2021

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Minority rapport: tensions between Britain's ethnic groups are too often overlooked

Rakib Ehsan - 11 Aug 2021

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The abuse of our young footballers was a disgrace – but it doesn't represent modern England

Rakib Ehsan - 13 Jul 2021

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Labour's shameful sectarianism has no place in British politics

Rakib Ehsan - 29 Jun 2021

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Batley and Spen: A morale boost for Starmer, or a tonic for the Tories?

Rakib Ehsan - 24 Jun 2021

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How Labour lost Hartlepool

Rakib Ehsan - 7 May 2021

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Labour's embrace of racialised politics is a betrayal of its own traditions

Rakib Ehsan - 22 Apr 2021

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Time to bin the useless 'BAME' acronym

Rakib Ehsan - 31 Mar 2021

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Brexit

Keir Starmer is flagging – and Leave-voting Hartlepool will be a stern test of his leadership

Rakib Ehsan - 17 Mar 2021

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Between the 'denialists' and the 'obsessives', a way out of Britain's culture war

Rakib Ehsan - 12 Mar 2021

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Is integration always a good thing? It's complicated...

Rakib Ehsan - 2 Mar 2021

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White working class kids are being left behind – we need to be honest about why

Rakib Ehsan - 28 Jan 2021

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America

Trump's performance among Muslim-Americans has crucial lessons for the Republicans

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Nov 2020

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Beyond Covid, the UK must face up to renewed threats

Rakib Ehsan - 16 Oct 2020

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How resilient is Britain?

Rakib Ehsan - 7 Sep 2020

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The identitarian left's vilification of the police must end

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Aug 2020

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Identity politics has no place in the fight against terrorism

Rakib Ehsan - 22 Jul 2020

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Coronavirus unites the world's anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists

Rakib Ehsan - 21 Apr 2020

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How the far-right is exploiting coronavirus to peddle race hate

Rakib Ehsan - 26 Mar 2020

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The overlooked ideology behind 21st century far-right terror

Rakib Ehsan - 4 Mar 2020

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About CapX

Rakib Ehsan

Another quango is no magic bullet for social cohesion

Preferential treatment has no place in multi-faith Britain

Labour's racial equality plans are divisive and unnecessary

School prayer bans don't make Britain a secular state

Identitarianism is rotting British social policy

Our political establishment is addicted to immigration

Keeping the faith – how religious belief can strengthen British society

Why the Tories' electoral future is in the new Home Secretary's hands

You've got to have faith – how religion can help promote economic advancement

Suella Braverman is right – integration is essential in a multi-racial democracy

How should Labour approach the 'culture wars'?

Anti-white bigotry is the inevitable consequence of Sadiq Khan's toxic identitarianism

In Sadiq Khan's world everyone else is a 'culture warrior'

Labour's Ruislip-up: why the by-election surprise was about more than just ULEZ

Racism report will leave ethnic minority cricket lovers stumped

Sky-high net migration is a political crisis – so how will the Government deal with it?

Picking your battles: can Britain really 'train up' legions of farm workers?

The Coronation showed Charles is a truly modern, multicultural monarch

Why Diane Abbott should no longer sit as a Labour MP

Arguments about a 'new elite' distract from a much bigger problem

The scourge of grooming gangs demands real solutions, not just punchy rhetoric

As Baroness Casey's report makes clear, the Met needs much more than mere 'reform'

Britain needs a 'new deal' for social cohesion

After a crazy January transfer window, the case for a new football regulator has never been clearer

We should take the UN's blinkered view of Britain with a pinch of salt

A firm target on asylum is welcome, but ministers have an awful lot of work to do

The census shows a country that is ever more diverse – and ever more secular

English football is still in urgent need of reform – and a regulator fans can have faith in

British ethnic minorities expect fairness – not favours

Interlocking crises are creating fertile ground for far-right extremism

Why Michael Gove is right when it comes to defining 'Islamophobia'

Ethnic minority voters care far more about Sunak's substance than his identity

A police force riddled with racism and misogyny can't keep London safe

James O'Brien is entitled to criticise Suella Braverman's policies – but leave her race out of it

Starmer's big pitch to Middle England has thrown down the gauntlet to Liz Truss

Disorder in Leicester is a reminder that we can't take social cohesion for granted

Elizabeth II was a Queen for all Britons, of all ethnicities and religions

Britain's social fabric is tattered – putting families first is the key to repairing it

The leaked report on illegal migrants show an asylum system that is not fit for purpose

A decade on, how should we assess the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics?

Forget talk of 'sell-outs' and 'coconuts' – the Tories' diversity is something to celebrate, not disparage

It's raining men – but that's no cause for celebration

The horrifying Oldham report once more underlines the state's failure to protect vulnerable children

Britain has made great progress in the Queen's 70-year reign – but there is no room for complacency

Can a Tory emphasis on crime blunt Labour's cost of living attacks?

Triumph and tribulation: Labour's London performance can't mask its provincial problems

Rehab vs radicalisation: how to stop Islamists spreading their poison on the prison estate

New immigration figures show just how 'racist' Brexit Britain really is

While Britain fights for democracy abroad, we can't ignore the crisis of confidence at home

Integration has become a 'political orphan' in search of a home

We should welcome Ukrainian refugees – but wealthier areas need to take in their fair share

The attack on Ukraine has shown Brexit Britain the limits of its Commonwealth ties

Britain must do more to help Ukrainians fleeing Putin's war machine

Crude claims about race and the energy crisis show just how little credibility Labour has left

This damning grooming report is a wake-up call: political correctness must never trump child safety

The extraordinary success of the British-Chinese community is a lesson to us all

Must do better: the Conservatives are missing a golden opportunity to woo Muslim voters

After the Texas synagogue siege, we must face up to antisemitism among British Muslims

Labour's figures sound alarming, but race and prosperity in Britain is far from black and white

2021 was the year that trust in politics hit rock bottom

Calling the vaccine-hesitant 'stupid' is both cruel and counter-productive

There's nothing 'inclusive' about avoiding the word Christmas

When it comes to racism in cricket, we should listen to Shahzad as well as Rafiq

Political correctness must not obscure the fight against violent jihadism

Boris' optimistic speech hammered home his biggest advantage over Labour

Starmer's speech offered nothing to the voters who abandoned Labour

Exploiting Emma Raducanu's victory to peddle a leftist agenda is a double fault for democracy

We must not let ideologues paint a false picture of British Muslim attitudes

Afghanistan's Uyghurs face a double threat – we must not forget them

Twenty years on, the British public have a very different view on intervention abroad

The Plymouth attack underscores the grave threat of 'Mixed Ideology' attackers

Minority rapport: tensions between Britain's ethnic groups are too often overlooked

The abuse of our young footballers was a disgrace – but it doesn't represent modern England

Labour's shameful sectarianism has no place in British politics

Batley and Spen: A morale boost for Starmer, or a tonic for the Tories?

How Labour lost Hartlepool

Labour's embrace of racialised politics is a betrayal of its own traditions