Arguing for sex-based categories in sports such as swimming and cycling is not bigotry. It’s fairness

Exclusive: Sharon Vitalis, whose father came to Britain with Windrush generation and served in the RAF for 13 years, denied citizenship due to what lawyers term ‘discriminatory’ nationality laws

A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted

Stephen Burgess, “Refugee Rescue” (Winner of the National Open Art World Art Vote, 2017) This essay, on why immigration policies create the immigration crisis, was my Observer …

This is a transformational moment. Let’s use it to challenge structural injustice, not to elicit or wallow in guilt

The two men, who knew each other but were traveling separately, said a friendly wave during boarding led to a crew-member's unjust suspicions.

After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history. The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 20,000 and...

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Politicians have long used the ‘invader’ trope to distract from failed social housing policies

Paintings by SKU deemed blasphemous for combining Islamic text with nude images

A head teacher says there was "no malicious intent" as the holy book's cover was torn.

The Satanic Verses author was repeatedly stabbed while on stage at a US literary event on Friday.

Asia Bibi, pictured, was given the death sentence in 2010 after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed in her native Pakistan in 2010. Now she is under threat of death.

The terrible injuries suffered by the great British writer will not extinguish his belief in the critical importance of saying the unsayable

CAB chief refuses to remove picture

Netflix’s drama about the Egyptian queen highlights how ideas of race have evolved

This is a transcript of my opening keynote talk at the ‘Dehumanising the Other’ conference at the CEU in Budapest. It was called ‘Looking Closer to Home: How mainstream politics paved t…

Trevor Donald, 65, told he has spent too long out of country after being wrongfully denied re-entry

The writer, who is stricken in hospital after an accident, gave us real characters, not stereotypes

Castigating artistic engagement with another culture is a secular version of charging blasphemy.

A new Netflix docuseries has reignited an old debate: Was Cleopatra Black? But a historian whose work informed the show says we’re thinking about her race all wrong.

‘The native-born are surrendering their territory,’ says the novelist. This is the language of the BNP

Traditional notions of the intellectual were never meant to include people who looked like me or who had a background like mine.

Politically correct crusades undermine all that's valuable in a diverse society

Many of the Labour politician’s fiercest critics pursue an equally divisive approach

Kenan Malik is the only speaker invited to the Whitehall event, entitled ‘Race, from White Supremacy to Identity Politics’

Britain appears to be fractious, divided. And yet the nation has never been more united in its social attitudes. What’s really going on?

Amid an increasingly confused debate, we must remember that historically it is the powerless who are most often silenced

It makes no sense to judge the fate of ‘white working-class boys’, a confusing category