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26‘Ethnic Boards Target “Too Ambitious”’, Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2014.
27Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, Justice for the 21st Century, Caroline Weatherill Lecture, Isle of Man, 9 October 2015.
28The story of Dame Linda Dobbs, First 100 Years, 8 March 2016, http://first100years.org.uk/the-story-of-dame-linda-dobbs/
29‘City Women Call for Quotas to Combat Sexism’, Financial Times, 15 January 2015.
30‘Construction Industry Calls for Quotas to Ease Gender Inequality’, Architects’ Journal, 30 January 2013.
31‘Ofsted “Positive Discrimination” Call’, BBC News, 7 January 2015.
32‘Police Chief Calls For Positive Discrimination’, Daily Telegraph, 28 January 2013.
3: WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE?
1‘Can White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized?’, Theodore W. Allen, independent pamphlet, Brooklyn New York, 1967.
2‘How I Started the Diane Abbott Twitter Storm’, theguardian.com, 5 January 2012.
3‘Was Diane Abbott’s Tweet Racist?’, telegraph.co.uk, 5 January 2012.
4‘Abbott, White People and Twitter’, labourlist.org, 5 January 2012.
5‘Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life House of Commons Library Briefing Paper’, Lukas Audickas, 28 June 2016.
6‘Diane Abbott’s Tweet and the Red Herring of Anti-White Racism’, theguardian.com, 6 January 2012.
7‘Stephen Lawrence’s Family Criticise Police over Alleged Spy Plot’, theguardian.com, 2 March 2016.
8‘IS Network: Self-Flagellation and the “Kinky Split”’, weeklyworker.co.uk, 13 February 2014.
9‘Safe Space or Free Speech? The Crisis Around Debate at UK Universities’, Ian Dunt, theguardian.com, 6 February 2016.
10‘Letter From the Birmingham Jail’, 16 April 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr, Martin Luther King, Jr Research and Education Institute.
11‘Into the Melting Pot’, The Economist, 8 February 2014.
12‘This Rush to Downplay Race Ignores the Truth of Inter-Racial Adoption’, theguardian.com, 2 November 2010.
13‘Michael Gove Speech on Adoption In Full’, politics.co.uk, 23 February 2012.
4: FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET
1‘Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, Daily Telegraph, 6 November 2007.
2I repeatedly contacted Mr Farage to ask him to expand on his thoughts on this topic, but one of his aides told me that he wasn’t interested in speaking to me.
3‘Farage “Felt Awkward” on Train’, Evening Standard, 28 February 2014.
4‘BRIEFING: The EU Immigration System is Immoral and Unfair’, voteleavetakecontrol.org, no date listed, http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/briefing_immigration.html
5‘Passport Checks Considered for Pregnant NHS Patients’, bbc.co.uk, 11 October 2016.
6‘EU Referendum: Vote Leave Focuses on Immigration’, bbc.co.uk, 25 May 2016.
7‘Immigration is Now the Top Issue for Voters in the EU Referendum’, Ipsos MORI Political Monitor, ipsos-mori.com, June 2016.
8‘Nick Griffin Posts Address of B&B Case Gay Couple Online’, theguardian.com, 19 October 2012.
9‘Rescue Boats? I’d Use Gunships to Stop Migrants’, Sun, 17 April 2015.
10Hermione Granger: A Thesis, youtube.com/rosianna, 22 December 2015.
11Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman is a dystopian young-adult fiction book in which a different course of history leads to Africa having a powerful advantage over Europe.
5: THE FEMINISM QUESTION
1Caroline Criado-Perez, Laura Bates, Allegra McEvedy’s perfect hangover food, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, first aired 31 December 2013.
2‘Ex-Tory MP Attacks Black Feminist on Twitter’, voice-online.co.uk, 6 January 2014.
3‘Ain’t I a Woman?’, Anti-Slavery Standard, 2 May 1863, reproduced at http://www.sojournertruth.com/p/aint-i-woman.html
4‘Intersectionality is an Icepick’, sarahditum.com, 18 October 2012.
5‘In Defence of Caitlin Moran and Populist Feminism’, New Statesman, 22 October 2012.
6‘There’s No Point in Online Feminism if It’s an Exclusive, Mean Girls Club’, New Statesman, 21 March 2013.
7‘The Problem With Privilege-Checking’, New Statesman, 17 December 2012.
8‘A Lexicon of Social Justice’, Breitbart London, 24 March 2015.
9‘An A-to-Z Guide to the New PC’, Spectator, 7 February 2015.
10‘Check My Privilege? I Have, Thanks. You’re Still Wrong’, Spectator, 8 June 2013.
11‘RIP This Britain: With Academic Objectivity, Oxford Professor and Population Expert David Coleman Says White Britons Could Be in the Minority by the 2060s – Or Sooner’, dailymail.co.uk, 28 May 2016.
12BBC Radio 4, Today, 18 January 2016.
13Crime Statistics, Focus on Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2012/13 Release, Chapter 2 – Homicide, Office for National Statistics, 13 February 2014, page 11.
14An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales, Ministry of Justice, Home Office & the Office for National Statistics – Statistics bulletin, 10 January 2013, page 6.
15‘Jack Straw Criticised for “Easy Meat” Comments on Abuse’, bbc.co.uk, 8 January 2011.
16‘Naomi Campbell: Fashion Industry “Guilty of Racist Acts”’, Channel 4 News, 16 September 2013.
6: RACE AND CLASS
1‘Identity, Awareness and Political Attitudes: Why Are We Still Working Class?’, British Social Attitudes 33, Social Class, NatCen Social Research, 2016, page 2.
2‘A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment’, Sociology, 2 April 2013.
3‘Poverty Among Ethnic Groups: How and Why Does It Differ?’, Guy Palmer and Peter Kenway, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007, page 5.
4‘2011 Census analysis: Ethnicity and the Labour Market, England and Wales’, Office for National Statistics, 13 November 2014.
5‘London’s Demography, Gentrification Blues’, The Economist, 9 August 2013.
6Local Ethnic Inequalities: Ethnic Differences in Education, Employment, Health and Housing in Districts of England and Wales, 2001−2011, University of Manchester in association with the Runnymede Trust, page 10.
7‘Liz Kendall “Will Back White Working-Class Young”’, theguardian.com, 29 May 2015.
8‘“BBC Plan to Promote Ethnic Minorities is Racist”, says MP’, telegraph.co.uk, 15 July 2014.
9‘Right to Buy Sales: January to March 2016, England’, Department for Communities and Local Government, Housing Statistical Release, 30 June 2016.
10‘10 Things We Should Know About Attitudes to Immigration in the UK’, Bobby Duffy & Tom Frere-Smith, Ipsos MORI, Perceptions and Reality, January 2014.
11‘Sharper Elbows: The Well-Off are Grabbing an Ever-Larger Share of Spending’, The Economist, 14 November 2015.
12‘Black Workers With Degrees Earn a Quarter Less Than White Counterparts, Finds TUC’, tuc.org.uk, 1 February 2016.
13Private Eye, 22 January 2016.
7: THERE’S NO JUSTICE, THERE’S JUST US
1‘No Women in Top Jobs? Welcome to the Hypocrisy of the Jeremy Corbyn Era’, Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2015.
2‘Millions Are Sharing Attack Stories That Aren’t About Paris’, BBC Trending, 16 November 2015.
AFTERMATH
1‘Who are the nationalist Finns Party?’, Jan Sundberg, bbc.co.uk, 11 May 2015, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32627013
2‘Expel Hungary from EU for hostility to refugees, says Luxembourg, Matthew Weaver and Patrick Kingsley’, theguardian.com, 13 September 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/13/expel-hungary-from-eu-for-hostility-to-refugees-says-luxembourg
3‘Here Are All the Times Donald Trump Insulted Mexico’, Katie Reilly, time.com, 31 August 2016, http://time.com/4473972/donald-trump-mexico-meeting-insult/
4‘Farage says UK can “do business” with Trump after becoming first British politician to meet President-
elect, Lizzie Dearden’, independent.co.uk, 12 November 2016, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-president-us-election-win-nigel-farage-visits-trump-tower-first-british-politician-new-a7413961.html
5‘Marine Le Pen visits Trump Tower in New York, David Lawler and Ruth Sherlock’, telegraph.co.uk, 12 January 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/marine-le-pen-visits-trump-tower-new-york/
6‘Former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman: “I find the idea that there was a posh cabal offensive”’, Decca Aitkenhead, theguardian.com, 10 November 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/10/former-vogue-editor-alexandra-shulman-find-idea-that-there-was-a-posh-cabal-offensive
7‘Alexandra Shulman’s Guardian Interview Is a Case Study on White Privilege’, Nadra Nittle, racked.com, 12 November 2017, https://www.racked.com/2017/11/12/16641058/alexandra-shulman-guardian-interview-british-vogue-racism
8https://www.instagram.com/p/BbExUv3nwqi/?taken-by=jo_swinson
9‘British Far-Right Group Exults Over Attention From Trump, Dan Bilefsky and Stephen Castle’, nytimes.com, 29 November 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/world/europe/britain-first-trump.html
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to Rupert for taking a chance on me, and to Alexa von Hirschberg and Angelique Tran Van Sang for turning me into a better writer. To everyone at Bloomsbury who believed in this book, I hope I’ve done you proud.
To Jessica and Jenny, who both bared your souls to me for the purposes of this book, I can’t thank you enough for being so honest with me.
Thank you to John Fernandes and others who were indispensably helpful with my research.
Thank you to those who pointed me in the right direction for research along the way: Kirsty, Aisling and Yasmin.
CC, your support has made this happen. You’re my backbone.
INDEX
Abbott, Diane, here, here
accessibility, here
Adewunmi, Bim, here
adoption, here
Alderson, Chief Constable John, here
Ali, Muhammad, here
Allen, Lily, here
Allen, Theodore W., here
‘anchor baby’, here
‘angry black women’, here
Anti-Slavery Society, here
Austen, Jane, here
Ayling, Chief Constable Bob, here
Baig, Akhtar Ali, here
Bailey, Guy, here
Bates, Laura, here
Baxter, Holly, here
Beale, Frances, here
Beauvoir, Simone de, here
Bellos, Linda, here
Bennett, David, here
Bindel, Julie, here
Black History Month, here
‘black identity’, here
Blair, Tony, here
Blakelock, PC Keith, here
Board, PC Dick, here
Boateng, Paul, here
Booth, Hartley, here
Boyega, John, here
Breitbart London, here
Bristol Omnibus Company, here
Britain First, here, here
British National Party, here, here, here
British Nationality Act, here, here
British Union of Fascists, here
British West Indies Regiment (BWIR), here
Brixton, here, here, here, here, here
Brooks, Duwayne, here
Brooks, Joseph, here
Brooks (slave ship), here
Brown, Prince, here
Butler, Rab, here
Cable, Vince, here
Camden Committee for Community Relations, here
Cameron, David, here, here
Campbell, Naomi, here
Cardiff, here
Christian, Mark, here
Clarkson, Thomas, here
Cobboth, N., here
Coleman, Professor David, here, here
Cologne, here
colour-blindness, here, here, here
Commonwealth Immigrants Act, here
community policing, here
company boardrooms, here
Condon, Sir Paul, here
Constantine, Sir Learie, here
Corbyn, Jeremy, here
Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy, here
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard von, here
Crenshaw, Dr Kimberlé, here, here, here, here
Criado-Perez, Caroline, here
Curle, Keith, here
Davenport, Neil, here
Davies, Philip, here
Davis, Angela, here
Dickens, Charles, here
Dickson, Leo, here
disability, here, here
Ditum, Sarah, here
DNA profiles, here
Dobbs, Dame Linda, here
Dobson, Gary, here, here
drugs, here
Du Bois, W. E. B., here
Duff Grant, L. G., here
Dumezweni, Noma, here
Dunham, Lena, here
Dunt, Ian, here
Dyke, Greg, here
education, here, here
Elba, Idris, here
Elford, William, here
emasculation, here
emergent service workers, here
employment prospects, here
English Defence League, here, here
EU referendum, here, here, here
eugenics, here
Evans, Audley, here
Fahy, Sir Peter, here
Farage, Nigel, here
Fenner Brockway, Archibald, here
Fernandes, John, here, here
films, here, here
First World War, here
Fleming, Rachel M., here
Fletcher, Muriel, here
football, here
freedom of speech, here
Garissa University, here
gender quotas, here
Girls, here
Gove, Michael, here
Grant, Bernie, here
Great British Class Survey, here
Greer, Germaine, here
Griffin, Nick, here, here, here, here
Griffiths, Peter, here
Groce, Cherry, here, here
Hackett, Roy, here
Hall, Tony, here
Halse Rojas, Rosianna, here
Harker, Joseph, here
Harry Potter, here
Hendon Police College, here
Henry, Owen, here
Hogan-Howe, Sir Bernard, here
homophobia, here, here
hooks, bell, here, here
Hopkins, Katie, here
Horowitz, Anthony, here
housing, here
Howe, Darcus, here
Howe, Sarah, here
identity politics, here, here, here
immigration, here, here, here, here, here
intersectionality, here, here, here
Jarrett, Cynthia, here
Jarrett, Floyd, here
judiciary, here
Kendall, Liz, here
Keynes, John Maynard, here
Keys, The, here
King, Martin Luther, Jr, here, here, here, here, here
Kinnock, Neil, here
Kitty’s Amelia (slave ship), here
Krase, Jennifer, here
Labour Party
Black Sections, here
and immigration controls, here
Lawrence, Stephen, here, here, here
League of Coloured Peoples, here
Lentin, Alana, here
Letwin, Oliver, here
Leveson, Lord Justice, here
Liverpool, here, here, here, here, here
London riots (2011), here
Lorde, Audre, here, here, here
Macpherson, Sir William, here
Manchester Royal Infirmary, here
mass media, here
Members of Parliament, here
Memorial Gates Trust, here
Mensch, Louise, here, here
mental health, here
Midlane, Tom, here
mixed-race relationships and children, here, here, here
Moody, Dr Harold, here
Mosley, Oswald, here
Mugabe, Sally, here
mugging, here, here
multiculturalism, here, here, here
‘state multiculturalism’, here
Murdoch, Rupert, here
Muslim women, here
National Football League (US), here
National Front, here, here, here
Nethercott, Ron, here
New Statesman, here, here
Newham Monitoring Project, here, here
Newport, here
Norris, David, here, here
Notting Hill, here
Nottingham, here, here
Obama, Barack, here
Okolosie, Lola, here
Operation Swamp, here