Dame Louise Casey's lengthy, evidence-based report is to be commended for its rigour and steadfast defense of liberal principles. It calls out illiberalism, not shrinking from addressing this problem in conservative Muslim...
Read moreThis time fifteen years ago I was a panel member of the Oldham Independent Review and Adviser to the Community Cohesion Review Team. These Government initiatives were born out of the race riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford...
Read moreSo after a year of investigation Louise Casey has come up with no real surprises or big ideas on integration—nor a phrase to match Ted Cantle’s popularisation of “parallel lives” 15 years ago—but in language and...
Read moreLouise is an unlikely civil servant: straight talking, who does not mince her words - the Casey Review of Integration tackles controversial subjects very directly. There is a danger that we will get caught up on some of the...
Read moreStanding at the end of 2016, the divisions in society are inescapable. Differences in outcomes, attitudes and votes are clear, whether by class or education level, by gender or ethnicity, by latitude or urban setting. What...
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