Art and Culture
Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke - book review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp reviews Umut Ozkirimli book Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke.
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning – book review by Vicki Robinson
Vicki Robinson reviews Nigel Biggar’s book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.
Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the antitherapeutic nature of Critical Social Justice - book review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp reviews Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the antitherapeutic nature of Critical Social Justice
Not So Black and White - book review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp reviews Kenan Malik’s new book Not So Black and White: A history of race from white supremacy to identity politics (2023)
The New Puritans – book Review by Vicki Robinson
Vicki Robinson reviews Andrew Doyle’s book The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West - review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp writes about podcaster and comedian Konstantin Kisin’s new book An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West.
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously - review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp reviews Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olufemi Taiwo, arguing that it is a welcome alternative to the pessimistic postmodern ideas that have become so popular in intellectual circles today.
The War on the West – How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason - review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp reviews The War on the West – How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason’ by Douglas Murray
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity - Review by Stephen Portlock
Stephen Portlock reviews the popular The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity written by Douglas Murray. Douglas Murray is a British author and political commentator.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals - book review by Aaron Fenton-Hewitt
Thomas Sowell is prized for being one of the very first pioneering American scholars whose research focused on minorities and economic outcomes. Aaron Fenton-Hewitt reviews his book, ‘Black Rednecks and White Liberals’.
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - book review by Simon Rickman
Cynical Theories is a book that assesses the recent Social Justice Movements and sheds lights on its origins. Simon Rickman evaluates the authors’ claims and judgements about the Social Justice Movement.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - book review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp looks at Afua Hirsch’s vision of a post-racial future and how we can get there. Graeme Kemp explores Afua Hirsch’s conclusions around multiculturalism and assimilation within British society.
Self Portrait in Black and White - book review by Cecilia Adekoya
Cecilia Adekoya reviews Thomas Chatterton-William’s book that seeks to break down the notion of ‘race’. Cecilia Adekoya draws many comparisons to the works of Paul Gilroy and Ralph Leonard.
Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire - book review by Graeme Kemp
Graeme Kemp assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Akala’s account of how race and class interlink in today’s Britain.
Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race - book review by Helen Wood
Helen Wood reviews the newly released Biracial Britain by Dr Remi Adekoya. She explores the narratives outlined and studied in the book and what this means for the concept of ‘race’ itself.
The New Age of (blaming everything on) Empire - book review by Zara Qureshi
Zara Qureshi reviews Kehinde Andrews’ recent book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera - book review by Vicki Robinson
Lives in Revolution - Ildi Tillmann
After the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, Ildi Tillmann partnered with Haitian journalists to document life in Haiti without a sensationalist or victimising frame. This page showcases Ildi Tillman’s photography of Haitian ‘lives in revolution’.
Haiti Beyond the Headlines - Ildi Tillmann
Haiti Beyond the Headlines is a photography project by Ildi Tillmann. Using multimedia to tell a story, Ildi Tillmann has put together a video essay that details the everyday lives of Haitians. It showcases the mundane, the ordinary and all the small things that make life in Haiti beautiful.
Better Left Unsaid (documentary by Curt Jaimungal) - review by Zara Qureshi
“The premise behind Better Left Unsaid, lies in the unconfined analysis of the often violent extremism of today’s Western political landscape.“