The Olympics have revealed once again that the British are fascinated with themselves and how they feel about who they are, now that they are a multicultural country that is no longer the centre of an Empire. Here we see some of the shifting responses detailed in polling responses run by the new t
Responding to the controversial dropping of Kevin Pietersen from the England cricket team, The Telegraph's political columnist Peter Oborne declared the impossibility of being born in South Africa and giving full loyalty to England. Sunder Katwala unpacks these remarks, arguing that once the invit
London 2012's opening ceremony evoked a 'gently fierce' national pride that was uniquely British in character.
The results of the 2012 UK-wide local elections provide important indicators about the future of the union. With Scotland checking Alex Salmond’s breakneck rise to power and the weak performance of Welsh Plaid Cymru, these nationalist movements have unappetising statistics to digest. Meanwhile, th
'Physical theatre' group DV8's latest production "Can We Talk About This?" is currently being performed at London's National Theatre. Sunder Katwala applauds its corporeal flair but finds a lack of serious engagement with its subject matter of multiculturalism.
Englishness is finally finding a voice, after more than a century. Why has it been muted this long, and is it time now for a strong civic nation, or will an England of blood and soil emerge?
As arguments over nationhood and independence once again grab the political agenda, Sunder Katwala, director of a new think tank probing attitudes to identity and integration, finds cause for optimism
The Labour Party doesn't know what to do or say about immigration. Last week's conference was a case in point, as two leading thinkers offered radical proposals for tightening immigration that even they admitted are unworkable.
How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society idea? Niki Seth Smith talks to leading people and institutions on the left to ask them how they see it, beginning with Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society who blogs at Next Left.
Sunder Katwala calls for the BBC to broadcast the second general election debate
Edward McMillan-Scott MEP may take legal action against the Conservative Party after an internal appeal panel upheld his expulsion from the party.
As we face the prospect of a Conservative Government, how we imagine our system ought to work will return to haunt us. Here Sunder Katwala, of the Fabians, takes on a defining 'historic' myth of British government.
