HeyJaredJason Okundaye
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Of course you can be English if youâre not white. So why canât the right leave the question alone? | Jason Okundaye (opens the original)
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Even Jacob Rees-Mogg pushes back on defining Englishness in exclusively ethnic terms. But the endurance of this discourse is still deeply troubling Can you be English and non-white? Itâs a question that keeps stubbornly resurfacing in our political discourse. Last weekend, the former prime minister Rishi Sunak gave his view in a column in the Times, arguing that national identity should not be turned into a DNA test. After leaving office, Sunak, the UKâs first prime minister of colour, was s
Booyakasha! Ali G is back â but even he can't match the absurdity of modern Britain | Jason Okundaye (opens the original)
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Sacha Baron Cohenâs character once exposed the contradictions of an emerging multicultural nation. But nearly 30 years on Britain has changed â and so has the joke And so the nostalgia machine grinds on, dragging another pop culture corpse back into the light: yes, itâs the return of Ali G. Respeck. Sacha Baron Cohenâs skull-cap-wearing, ârudebwoyâ wankster is staging a comeback with Ali G: Who Iz I?. The new film, premiering next month, is a mockumentary that sees the character star
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye (opens the original)
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The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality ‘To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.” That was the breathtaking response of Prof Jason Arday when the Guardian interrogated the details he provided of an alleged racist campaign of intimidation against him, which involved a severed pig’s head, a masked man wielding a knife and bullets in the post. Arday had been unable to
Some advice for Andy Burnham? Crack down on ârip-off Britainâ â and make sure voters feel the benefits | Jason Okundaye (opens the original)
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Fining errant corporations is welcome â but when consumers are also getting shaken down on their local high street, itâs time for a new and boisterous approach Itâs a story that warms the heart and lifts the soul: last week, Virgin Media was fined a record £28m by Ofcom for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling their contracts. Its methods were insidious: deliberate call-dropping, unnecessary call transfers and constantly putting customers on hold. For anyone who has experienced
The new Isa rules melt my brain: but thatâs not even the worst thing about these changes for first-time buyers | Jason Okundaye (opens the original)
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Quite aside from all the convolutions, itâs clear the government is ignorant of the reality for young people like me hoping to get on the property ladder I need to talk about money. Specifically my finances and trying to buy a house as a young person. I hope youâll forgive me if I sound like I donât know what Iâm talking about, but thatâs because Iâm going to try to make sense of the governmentâs reforms to personal savings accounts, known as Isas. These products have become signif
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