Ripostes: Spreading Confusion, Potentially Inciting Hatred – Trevor Phillips’ Route to ‘Active Integration’ by Professor Gus John

By Myriam Francois|June 1, 2016|Ripostes|3 comments

    Spreading Confusion, Potentially Inciting Hatred – Trevor Phillips’ Route to ‘Active Integration’   by Professor Gus John   Anyone reading the recent ‘Civitas’ publication Race and Faith: The Deafening Silence by Trevor Phillips (with commentaries from David Goodhart and Jon Gower Davies) who knew nothing about Phillips, could be forgiven for assuming that he was a protégé of or speech writer for Donald Trump, or at least a spokesman for

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Speaker’s Corner: Fatima Begum Rajina on “The aesthetic challenge to Britishness: Nadiya’s victory on Great British Bake Off 2015”

By Myriam Francois|October 12, 2015|Speaker's Corner|0 comments

The aesthetic challenge to Britishness: Nadiya’s victory on Great British Bake Off 2015 by Fatima Begum Rajina, SOAS-Nohoudh PhD candidate Above: Nadiya Hussain winner of this year’s Great British Bake Off Where do I start with this? She started off the show on shaky grounds and was certainly not one I thought would win the show but it is through her dedication and perseverance that she won the minds and hearts of the

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