Cassandra Cavallaro reports on a shameful case of Nigerian passengers being forcefully deported from a British Airways flight.

Music as a form of political protest has catalysed anti-racist and progressive forces in the UK into action since the first Carnival Against the Nazis, writes Alexander Billet .

This is the executive summary of ‘A Tale of Two Englands – ‘Race’ and Violent Crime in the Press’, by the Runnymede Trust. The report analyses newspaper articles over a two month period, and identifies clear differential patterns in the way in which the press reports on violent crime.

Jenny Bourne, a member of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) recalls the events of 1972 which changed the terms of the race relations debate.

The recent BBC White Season painted a bleak picture of the white working class in Britain today as bigoted and broken. Martin Smith argues that these stereotypes are encouraged by politicians and the media to divide us and are far from the experiences of working people’s real lives.

Hassan Mahamdallie asks if Islamophobia has become society’s acceptable racism.

The Independent Working Class Association takes issue with what they call ‘the inept political strategy of multiculturalism’.

Julie Hyland looks at the racist overtones of the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’ series.

The response of the liberal press to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks on Shari’a law consisted of little more than base Islamophobic prejudice dressed up in liberal and feminist language, writes Richard Seymour.

Nahella Ashraf writes that Islamophobia is the last “acceptable” racism in Britain. To combat it means opposing the “war on terror”.

The main threat to democracy isn’t “Islamofacism”, writes Gary Younge, but plain old fascism, with mostly white Europeans terrorizing minorities in the name of racial, cultural or religious superiority.

People who would have no problem recognising anti-semitism as a form of racism still claim Islamophobia is about ideology, not ethnicity, argues Seamus Milne.

Exclusive to UK Watch, David Wearing examines the campaign of demonisation of Muslims in Britain, and concludes that the “clash of civilisations” model espoused by professed defenders of ‘Enlightenment values’ is in fact irrational and often in contradiction to the empirical facts.

Chris Morris on the ridiculous and dangerous Islamophobia espoused by British novelist Martin Amis.

Ronan Bennett takes a look at British novelist Martin Amis’ endorsement of prejudice against Muslims, and the disturbing failure of his peers to call him on it.

Richard Seymour explores how a broader look at the history of European colonialism can inform present-day discussion of a so-called “clash of civilizations”, and examines the link between colonialism and genocide.

Calls for increased stop-and-searches of young black people are inconsistent and fail to take note of a wider context of deprivation, writes Chuka Umunna

Author Paul Gilroy tells Brian Richardson why he hopes images of past moments of everyday life and struggle will inspire a new generation

Liberal arguments that the West needs to defend “Enlightenment values” lead to a culture of bigotry, writes Arun Kundnani