Tag Archives: Racism

The poison that is destroying civility and how to fight it

Posted on March 4, 2017 by Samira Ahmed

‘How did you get into first class? You don’t deserve to be in first class. ‘You should be in common class. In fact, you shouldn’t be in this country at all. ‘You don’t deserve to be here. 
Bloody foreigners. Where … Continue reading →

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Hero or love rat? Jane Austen and procrastination

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Samira Ahmed

I made a Something Understood about Procrastination, focused on heroes. From the world of statecraft we have JFK’s use of delay to avert World War III in the Cuban Missile  Crisis, and in contrast Dr Martin Luther King challenging the … Continue reading →

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Robocop policing: A warning about future riots

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Samira Ahmed

The  former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Brian Paddick gave me an interview for The World This Weekend on Radio 4 in which he issued a warning about a fundamental breakdown in the police’s social contract with the … Continue reading →

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