The British Muslim: chasing shadows on April 27, 2017The acceptability of Islamophobic rhetoric has clearly become more commonplace in Western politics, perhaps best exemplified by Trump’s Muslim travel ban and the rising popularity of European anti-Islamic populists such as Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders. Britain’s mainstream politics has never been as overtly anti-Islamic as of its continental counterparts.Even UKIP’s former leader Nigel […]
Post-imperial nostalgia: Brexit and the Empire on March 8, 2017Borris Johnson, on a post-Brexit state visit to Pakistan, declared that two per cent of the British population can trace its origin to this land creating an “indissoluble bond” and called for closer ties between the two countries as the UK embarks on its mission to have a “global outlook” after voting to leaving the […]