Racism

Only 285 villagers voted – but the breathless media coverage shows disaster nationalism has found a comfortable home in wealthy, middle England.

As the memoir of Jason Arday is published this week, Clive Hedges argues that the row over his PhD was never really about plagiarism – it was about who higher education lets in and how quickly it turns on them.

A forensic new book by Daniel Trilling traces how Britain’s political establishment normalised the far right and asks whether it’s too late to reverse course.