Sunder Katwala

Sunder Katwala is director of independent, non-partisan think tank British Future. He has previously worked as a journalist. He was general secretary of the Fabian Society think tank from 2003 to 2011, and was previously a leading writer and internet editor at the Observer, a research director of the Foreign Policy Centre and commissioning editor for politics and economics at the publisher Macmillan.

<p>Constant changes of terminology are often seen as confusing and distracting by those from minority and majority backgrounds alike</p>

Apparently I’m part of the ‘global majority’, now – what nonsense

<p>Since Rishi Sunak’s pledge, in March 2023, that anyone who crossed the Channel would be removed within weeks, 50,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in the UK</p>

There is only one realistic way to reduce the number of Channel deaths

<p>Just as the 2019 Conservative manifesto was going to print, a new line was added – that ‘overall numbers would fall’. Johnson reportedly told colleagues to ignore this</p>

I blame record-high immigration on one man – Boris Johnson

<p>The more eye-catching the proposal, the less likely it is to be of practicable use</p>

The next home secretary must be bold – and boring

<p>The challenges of grappling with what happens after Brexit will not go away for many years to come</p>

Brexit broke Britain, but there’s no stomach for another bloody battle

<p>Brexit led to significant changes in immigration policy, with the end of EU free movement and a new points-based system</p>

Why more immigration could be the key to making Brexit work

<p>‘We need to talk more about England, and what we want it to mean today, for more people to feel included’</p>

What it means to be English is changing

Demonstrators take part in a Black Lives Matter protest outside the US Embassy in London last July

Is Britain racist? This binary question obstructs real progress

Pragmatic public wants immigration mended, not ended

People wait for public transport at a bus-stop in Kingston Upon Thames town centre on April 19th, 2008 in London, England.

Attitudes to race really have improved