Responding to Rod Liddle in Tower Hamlets: Need to be Tough on Racism, But also Tough on the Root Causes of Racism

Responding to Rod Liddle in Tower Hamlets: Need to be Tough on Racism, But also Tough on the Root Causes of Racism

Journalist Rod Liddle wrote a racist and Islamophobic piece in the Sunday Times. Politicians from all side expressed the standard outrage and demands for apology. In this piece I argue, that if activists and public figures are genuine in their outrage we must address...
Summer Thoughts 2# Remembering the summer of 1978 – The Murder of Altab Ali and the Unfinished Revolution

Summer Thoughts 2# Remembering the summer of 1978 – The Murder of Altab Ali and the Unfinished Revolution

The Summer of 1978 In popular culture the summer of 68, the student riots in Paris and the ancillary demonstrations around the world, are considered to this day as a cultural, social and moral turning point in the history of the post war modern world. In the East End...