The Royal Free London is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country. One day, its chief exec went on an anti-racism leadership course. When he got home, he sat down with his family and started ranting: It was after either the first or the second session. We'd had a very good set of conversations about race and the history of race. It was intellectually challenging, emotionally stimulating, and quite hard to face up to. I remember going home, sitting at the dinner table, and

Does the present moment feel different? There’s rising hate crime , flags, open season  on racism on social media, and, in case we forget, it’s less than two years since a group of people tried burning down a hotel  with asylum seekers in it.   This isn’t how it was meant to be. For years, many believed we were moving forward. Racism had not disappeared, but it felt less visible. Organisations adopted equality language, footballers took the knee, and Prime Ministers would twe

On Monday, we were invited by the Dialogue Society  to take part in a discussion on belonging, power, and dialogue in a changing society. The conversation centred on Birmingham and the growing gap between the people who live in the city and the structures that shape their lives. Here's what we said, in four points: How do how younger, more recent migrants in Birmingham negotiate and express their identities? Second-generation immigrant young people in Birmingham are growing u