For the Moroccan-born American author Laila Lalami, immigration is not exotic but “one of the most ordinary human experiences there is”. In The Other Americans, her fourth novel, what fascinates her are the complex everyday feelings of isolation and separateness it provokes. It is this concern that
This column falls neatly between two important anniversaries, neither of which
will have been celebrated by many Britons. The first, on June 22, Windrush Day,
commemorates the arrival of 492 West
In 1926 the African-American historian Carter G Woodson conceived Negro History
Week as a way of restoring pride to the millions forcibly exiled from Africa, wh
The grim news from the Channel has forced immigration back into the spotlight.
Fingers are being pointed in Paris and London, and the entente, not so cordiale
t
Politics, like basketball, is supposed to be a no-contact sport. Both activities
have a panoply of rules designed to minimise the advantages of the powerful ove
If your day job is ferreting out talent for employers it’s hard not to see the
Tory leadership contest through the lens of the panic stirring Britain’s
boardroo
The provocative historian Nigel Biggar fires an intellectual antitank missile into the agonised debate over the impact and legacy of the British Empire
They will need more space at the Cenotaph this year, with a record seven ex-prime ministers laying wreaths. Heaven knows how they’ll manage at the Coronation. P
As someone in the business of talent-spotting for boss-class jobs, I should declare a keen personal interest in Jeremy Hunt’s efforts to tempt a half mill
It’s not so much what was said, or even the way it was said. It was who said it that really provoked the liberal reaction to Suella Braverman’s comments in Washington. And as she knew it would, her