Race
“The fight to redefine racism” by Kelefa Sanneh
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/the-fight-to-redefine-racism
“Why nobody is systemically racist” by James Lindsay
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/nobody-systemically-racist/
“I am not BAME” by Ben Habib
https://westmonster.com/habib-i-am-not-bame
“We need to talk about Black Lives Matter” by Andrew Doyle
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/12/we-need-to-talk-about-black-lives-matterm/
FILMED INTERVIEW: “The moral case against Black Lives Matter” Coleman Hughes interviewed by Freddie Sayers:
https://unherd.com/thepost/coleman-hughes-the-moral-case-against-blm/
FILMED PANEL: “Dissecting Black Lives Matter and UK racism” with Anthony Joshua and panel in The Sun‘s ‘Time For Change’ debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=a_izDCzBONE&feature=emb_logo
“Racism is a problem, white people are not” by Kenan Malik https://kenanmalik.com/2020/06/16/racism-is-a-problem-white-people-are-not/
Also see general writing on racism and critiques of identity politics by Kenan Malik: https://kenanmalik.com/
FILMED PANEL: “Black and White Vision: Are we seeing racism everywhere?” Battle of Ideas festival (Oct 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=y6sDkI8g5DM&feature=emb_logo AND https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2018/session/black-and-white-vision-are-we-seeing-racism-everywhere/
FILMED INTERVIEW: “The Problem with Black Lives Matter” Zuby interviewed on TRIGGERnometry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sk4-p_0pcU
“Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous” by Nick Buckley https://thecritic.co.uk/i-was-fired-for-criticising-blm/
“The problem with identity politics” Q&A with Asad Haider https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5342/the-problem-with-identity-politics
“Race is not the disadvantage it once was in the UK” by Shabnam Nasimi https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/race-is-not-the-disadvantage-it-once-was-in-the-uk
“Which Lives Matter?” by Ike Ijeh http://futurecities.org.uk/2020/06/23/which-lives-matter/
“White Guilt and Black Power: the creation of the structural racism myth” by Tarjinder Gill https://allinbritain.org/white-guilt-and-black-power-the-creation-of-the-structural-racism-myth/
“From Racism to White Privilege” by Kenan Malik https://kenanmalik.com/2020/08/15/from-racism-to-white-privilege/
“The N-word is a repellent insult – but so is the belief that white people are innately racist” by Calvin Robinson https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8631531/CALVIN-ROBINSON-N-word-repellent-belief-white-people-innately-racist.html
Education
“Is unconscious-bias training the new Brain Gym?” by Kevin Rooney
https://www.tes.com/news/unconscious-bias-training-new-brain-gym
“The insidious march of critical race theory in schools may be breaking the law” by Calvin Robinson
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/11/insidious-march-critical-race-theory-schools-may-breaking-law/
“Can you really teach kids not to be racist?” by Tom Chivers
https://unherd.com/2020/07/anti-racism-training-for-children-is-cruel/
“We’ve learned so much from dead white men – trying to remove them from history is madness” by Lindsay Johns https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/weve-learned-so-much-dead-white-men-trying-remove-them-history-madness-1587140
FILMED PANEL: “Decolonising Education: is the curriculum too white?” Battle of Ideas festival (November 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxLd-Y9raE&feature=emb_logo AND http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2016/session/11570#.XxbAdG5FzMQ
FILMED PANEL: “CLR James and the Canon” Worldwrite film launch
http://www.worldwrite.org.uk/video/every-cook-can-govern-clr-james-the-canon/
Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by Remi Adekoya
https://unherd.com/2020/08/anti-colonialists-must-tell-the-truth-about-empire/
“Review: Channel 4 ‘The School That Tried To End Racism’” by Howard Sherwood https://dontdivideus.com/media/
“The danger of ‘decolonising’ education” by Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/29/the-danger-of-decolonising-education/
“Academic Decolonisation: the Slippery Slope of Dismantling Knowledge” by Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert
https://conatusnews.com/academic-decolonisation-dismantling-knowledge/
“What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?” by David Butterfield
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-would-it-mean-to-decolonise-the-Classics
“Let kids be kids” by Ella Whelan
https://thecritic.co.uk/let-kids-be-kids/
Critical Race Theory
“White fragility training and freedom of belief” by Helen Pluckrose
https://areomagazine.com/2020/06/26/is-white-fragility-training-ethical/
“The dehumanising condescension of White Fragility” by John McWhorter
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146
“Keep critical race theory out of the classroom” by Adrian Hart
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/09/keep-critical-race-theory-out-of-the-classroom
“Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist” by Lloyd Evans
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/racial-sensitivity-training-turned-me-into-a-racist
“On ‘White Fragility’” by Matt Taibbi
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
“Opening Pandora’s Box” by Greg Ashmanhttps://gregashman.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/opening-pandoras-box/
“Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias” by Jenny Bourne (Institute of Race Relations)
http://www.irr.org.uk/news/unravelling-the-concept-of-unconscious-bias/
“Stop apologising for cultural appropriation” by Ralph Leonard https://unherd.com/2020/07/cultural-appropriation-is-progressive-and-anti-racist/
“Decolonising discourses as symptoms of morbidity” by Alka Sehgal Cuthbert https://www.oneducation.net/no-07_april-2020/decolonising-discourses-as-symptoms-of-morbidity/
[VIDEO] “Critical Race Theory (Anti-Racism) vs. Liberalism” by Anonymous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mVGwTMJxI&feature=youtu.be
“The Campus Grievance Industry” by Doug Stokes
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-campus-grievance-industry/
“The Role That Social Psychology Has Played In Creating Our Divided World” by Kirsty Miller
https://medium.com/@drkirsty/the-role-that-social-psychology-has-played-in-creating-our-divided-world-b40658f71d1d
Free Speech
“The threat to civil liberties goes way beyond ‘cancel culture’” by Leigh Phillips
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-harpers-letter-free-speech
“The tyranny of groupthink” by Josef Joffe
“Is there still room for debate?” by Andrew Sullivan
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-is-there-still-room-for-debate.html
“When will the trade unions speak up?” by Paul Embery
FILMED INTERVIEW: “Taking on the woke movement and the culture wars” Claire Fox, interviewed by Steven Edginton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyBRwz_xt-k&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0nmGZr7mwAxcNpOexNkko8GbCzNjYCaooiTpBvgLqQhRUUl5wN70iVvso
“We’re facing a tsunami of censorship” by Toby Young https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/were-facing-a-tsunami-of-censorship
PODCAST: “What to do when you’ve been cancelled – How to wean cancel culture addicts off their favourite drug” David Scullion, The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/what-to-do-when-youve-been-cancelled/
Teaching Resources / For Sixth-Formers
“Black Lives Matter: A Guide to Teaching Sixth Formers about Racism and Inequality” by Free Speech Union https://freespeechunion.org/black-lives-matter-a-guide-to-teaching-sixth-formers-about-racism-and-inequality/
DEBATING MATTERS TOPIC GUIDE https://debatingmatters.com/
Debate motion: “Monuments to Controversial Historical Figures Should Remain” Click Here
DEBATING MATTERS TOPIC GUIDE
“Britain should pay reparations for its colonial past” Click Here
History
“The statue-topplers are obsessed with white men and white history” by Tanjil Rashid https://spectator.us/statue-topplers-white-men-history-raja-rammohan-roy/
“Toppling statues won’t transform inner cities” by Matthew Syed https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/toppling-statues-wont-transform-inner-cities-9rzrtfnwj
“Modern-day witchfinders won’t end the hate by pulling down statues — they’ll only fuel it” by Inaya Folarin Iman https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ -8438005/Modern-day-witchfinders-wont-end-hate-pulling-statues-writes-Inaya-Folarin-Iman.html
FILMED DEBATE: “Revere or Remove? The Battle Over Statues, Heritage and History” organised Intelligence Squared with Historic England https://youtu.be/SoC2ioaQUQU
FILMED DEBATE: “US congressional hearing on reparations for slavery” Ta-Nehisi Coates VS Coleman Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5AQyWAWHU4&feature=youtu.be
“Culture wars are about our society” by Jeremy Black https://thecritic.co.uk/culture-wars-are-about-our-society/
“John Lewis: ‘good trouble’” by Kevin Yuill https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/20/john-lewis-good-trouble/
FILM: “Every Cook Can Govern” first feature-length documentary to explore the life, writings and politics of the great Trinidad-born revolutionary C.L.R. James who died in Brixton in 1989
BOOK: “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas” https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Times-Frederick-African-American/dp/0486431703/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
PODCAST: “Race relations in the USA from the abolition of slavery after the American Civil War (1865), through Reconstruction, via Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Trayvon Martin to Black Lives Matter and Statues”. Dr Cheryl Hudson interviewed by Ria Lina’s for Behind podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-true-racism-behind-blm-usa-with-dr-cheryl-hudson/id1506246354?i=1000483654314
PODCASTS: “Clear and Present Danger – a History of Free Speech” a series of podcasts by Jacob Mchangama, who guides listeners through the history of free speech from the trial of Socrates to the Great Firewall https://www.freespeechhistory.com/
“History Matter Project: a compendium of evidence” by Policy Exchange
https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/history-matters-project/
Public Institutions and Professions
“I Left the British Psychological Society — And This Is What Happened” by Kirsty Miller
https://medium.com/@drkirsty/i-left-the-british-psychological-society-and-this-is-what-happened-254aa2295c22