Author name: Alyson Malach

Racism in the UK is not an occasional outburst or something that only happens “over there.” It is a pattern visible in statistics but lived as experience in boardrooms and classrooms, in council offices and hospital wards. To confront racism, we must see it where it already exists, understand how it harms people, and commit […]

Racism in the UK is not only the rare, headline-grabbing incident. For many people, it is a pattern: repeated barriers, coded messages, unequal outcomes, and the quiet fatigue of having to prove again and again that what they experienced was real. The most difficult truth is this: racism can exist even when nobody “means it.”

For decades, the UK has grappled with the consequences of racial disparity across policing, the criminal justice system, and the media. From the 1970s “mugging” narratives to the treatment of the Stephen Lawrence family, our country has repeatedly witnessed how racialised crime reporting fuels fear, reinforces stereotypes, and inflicts lasting harm on communities of colour.

New research exposes the racist reality of UK citizenship stripping laws that place 3 in 5 people of colour are at risk Stripped: The Citizenship Divide shows that up to nine million people are vulnerable to having their British citizenship stripped, three million more than previously estimated. Ethnically diverse people are twelve times as likely to

There is a familiar rhythm to being the only one who looks like me in a room. For many of us from ethnically diverse backgrounds, this experience is woven into our daily lives: in workplaces, in leadership spaces, in cultural venues, and even in the art forms we love, opera, ballet, classical music, and theatre.

An Equity-Based Analysis Public debate exposes a striking and uncomfortable inconsistency. Understanding this contradiction is essential for readers if we want to make sense of equity, safeguarding, and how power shapes public sympathy. 1. Equality vs Equity: What We Must Clarify Equality treats everyone the same.Equity recognises that different young people grow up under profoundly