Unwritten Lives

I am writing to express my alarm and objection to the "race-based anti-immigrant pogrom" playing out in Belfast. Do not attempt to normalise it. Do not pretend it is a recent phenomenon, or even an isolated occurrence. It is the latest eruption of a lethal pattern of violence, which has been deployed against migrants in the UK for decades.

With heavy losses for the governing Labour party, and huge gains for the rightwing populist party, Reform UK, the results of last week's local elections on 7 May have reverberated through the UK like an earthquake. Here is what will happen next

During dark times, we must stand by our Jewish neighbours as generations of Londoners have done before us

"Whenever I hear a Western pundit or politician go on about 'democracy,' I say to myself, 'Oh hell, give it a rest. Nobody’s buying that crap anymore.' I think that people serious about Palestine and decolonization more broadly react skeptically to the term because we understand it to be the vocabulary of our own dispossession."

Congratulations pour in from across EU, with leaders from Spain, Poland, France, Britain, Denmark, Romania, Sweden and beyond hailing a new chapter

Local elections have led to a surge of racism in a country that still struggles to see itself as anything other than white

Dear Home Secretary, We are writing to you with the utmost urgency regarding the reported upcoming performance by Kanye West at Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park.

Concerted dismantling and cumulative decline sum up the state of the rule of law across large parts of the EU and increasingly within the European Institutions themselves.

On 28 March 2026, tens of thousands of people gathered in London to march against the far right.

March TOGETHER against the far right. Central London. Saturday 28 March 2026. 12pm to 6pm. Join us!