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The start of King Street in Hammersmith. Photo: House of Hall

Islamophobic hate crime up by 62% in Hammersmith & Fulham

Over the past year, crime in general has fallen in Hammersmith & Fulham, but race and religious hate crime has risen, with the Muslim population particularly affected. There are several reasons behind this discrepancy, writes Phil Cooper of Hammersmith and Fulham Refugee Forum (HFRF).

Job Centre Plus. Photo: HelenCobain

What next for youth in the north-east?

One of the most pressing issues today is the sheer amount of young people in need of employment. Since...

Soldiers with interpreter, Afghanistan 2009. Photo: isafmedia

Public support asylum for Afghan interpreters

The British public believe that Britain should offer asylum to Afghan interpreters who worked for British troops, according to...

Big Lunchers in Peckham. Photo: Nicholas Okwulu

Big Lunch recipe of success for Peckham

Peckham has not always enjoyed the best reputation, often being associated with Del Boy, Damilola Taylor and destitution. In...

A Cardiff City fan. Photo: milos.kravcik

Year of the dragon boosts Welsh spirit

Football in the Welsh capital has always come second fiddle to the much-loved national rugby team, and with Cardiff...

The Parisian neighbourhood of Le Marais houses various Jewish communities, including two synagogues in the house pictured. Photo: cicilief

A good move? French Jews relocate to UK amid rising antisemitism

In light of antisemitism incidents in France, and new British polling on discrimination, Jemimah Steinfeld investigates the French Jewish...

UK policemen. Photo: estherase

“Change way stop and search carried out”

When Stephen Lawrence died on that tragic evening of April 22 1993, I was merely three years old. Yet...

A British Future workshop and debate in Eltham

1993 to 2013: How has Britain changed since Stephen was killed?

Britain is a fairer and less racist country than it was when Stephen Lawrence was murdered 20 years ago....

The hills above Llanbedr, north-west Wales. Photo: Welshdan

Can’t drive, can’t email: Life in north Wales

The information age, when messages can be sent across the globe in seconds, and packages from thousands of miles...

Sporting star Lewis Hamilton, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has a white mother and a black father. Photo: ph-stop

Why young people are embracing mixed marriages

What do 18 to 25 year olds think about mixed marriages? How have their views changed from past generations?...

Members of audience at British Future's Stephen Lawrence: 20 Years On Eltham event. Photo: Emma Jane Richards

VIDEO: How can we create more opportunities for Eltham youth?

"I actually desperately wish that central government had a better understanding of the need for, at a local level,...

Eltham event. Photo: Emma Jane Richards

More vocational skills vital for our kids’ future say Eltham residents

Limited opportunities for young people, based on a disconnect between education and employment, was of much greater priority than...

British Future's workshop In Eltham

20 Years On: Why anniversary of Stephen’s death is moment to consider modern Britain

20 years on, we can now see that Stephen Lawrence's death has come to play an important symbolic role,...

The Melting Pot Generation

What the public want on integration

Sunder Katwala reflects on what we learnt from focus groups asking people in Leeds and Fareham how integration should...

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Where are the ‘78% British’ headlines about London?

The inclusive pride so many Londoners felt in its confident claim to be one of the world's great global...

Lord Ahmed story in The Times

The case of the peer, his antisemitic comments and how not to do diversity in politics

Lord Ahmed's comments blaming his imprisonment for dangerous driving on a Jewish conspiracy are absurd and extreme, says Sunder...

Cynthia Masiyiwa

Award winner helped young people get involved in Olympics

Zimbabwean refugee Cynthia Masiyiwa has been selected for the Woman of the Year award at The Migrant and Refugee...

Dick with his mother and two sisters, shortly before they left Ireland. Despite being minor gentry, things had obviously got quite tough, as they’re wearing home-made clothes.

Remembering the contributions of the Anglo-Irish

A lover of Iris Murdoch novels, I noticed recently that in my faded 1960s paperbacks her author’s biography proudly...

Erich McElroy on British identity

REVIEW: Comic McElroy on becoming British, pessimism and pubs

Americans don’t get sarcasm, the British love queues and the French like cheese. Stereotypes are often inaccurate, but can...

Production image from Glasgow Girls. Photo: Stratford East

REVIEW: Glasgow Girls receives standing ovation

After the performance of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Glasgow Girls, the audience jumped to their feet and roared...