An Asian whitewash
Ziauddin Sardar's latest book touches on many of the most troubling questions at the heart of what it means to be a British Asian in the 21st century. But his blinkered adherence to the politics of resentment means it contains…
The kindness of strangers
The claim that there is no such thing as race is understandable but wrong. We should recognise both the genetic reality of race and the uniquely human ability to transcend it
Racial divisions
The debate over race has moved on. To judge from his review of my book, Mark Pagel hasn't noticed
Healing postponed
For all his lofty talk of national unity, Obama may actually put back the arrival of a post-racial America
Broken borders
Republican presidential candidates are outdoing each other in their attempts to appear tough on illegal immigration. Yet reform is well overdue
These islands
Dublin's Parnell Street was derelict before the Africans began to move in, in the mid-1990s. Now the Asians have replaced them and we have a minister for integration
Is God returning to Europe?
A leading US Christian says that faith in Europe will be re-energised by a creative Christian minority and by the example of Islam. But he is too sanguine about the integration of Muslims and about "model" America—where religiosity is, in…
How we “count” migration
People are very hard to count, especially in a free society. The failings in Britain's system of counting migration reflect the inherent flaws in any mass sampling system. Although the system could be improved, it will always be tough to…
Diversity and trust
Recent research by the sociologist Robert Putnam may provide tentative backing for David Goodhart's arguments on diversity
Defending Hodge
The belief that those who have lived in a community longest should have housing priority isn't racist
Why Sidique?
There's more to extremist Islam than crises of identity