Bonnie Greer
17 January 2024
America’s belief in the ‘inside job’ will put Trump back inside the Oval Office
Robert Redford portrayal in Three days of the Condor is eerily similar to Trump's contemporary success
Read the full article10 January 2024
I dislike everything Badenoch says.. but I’d still like to see her lead the Tories
Opposing right-wing politicians of colour runs the risk of entering a dangerous world of contradiction and nuance
Read the full article03 January 2024
Just stop the right’s defunding of art, and culture will stop selling itself to oil
Britain needs a government that doesn’t shy away from culture and art
Read the full article20 December 2023
Milei and Maduro, riders on a storm that’s coming from the south
The populist leaders of Argentina and Venezuela fly under the radar in the northern hemisphere, but the threat they pose is very real
Read the full article17 December 2023
The progressive left must learn there can be no whataboutery when it comes to rape
A US politician’s clumsy words about Hamas highlight a wider problem
Read the full article07 December 2023
The truth, erudition and beauty of Benjamin Zephaniah
The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again
Read the full article06 December 2023
Return the friezes and start the job of remaking our museums
The British Museum should be a place of cognition but it's not
Read the full article29 November 2023
Why I’m no longer calling myself African American
Africa will always be part of my identity – but not all of it
Read the full article22 November 2023
Barbra Streisand tells us her truth
She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such
Read the full article15 November 2023
America is looking for a Swift political change
Joe Biden is too old and Donald Trump is too divisive – is a Taylor-made change on the horizon?
Read the full article08 November 2023
On a November day 60 years ago, both a president and a dream died
The assassination of JFK forever changed America’s national psyche
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I won’t go back to the British Museum while austerity Osborne is in charge
He knows that unless parliament passes a new act, the museum cannot restitute the Parthenon Marbles
Read the full article18 October 2023
Like Savile, Trump is a monster who understands how to push our buttons
The two media monsters were formed out of their nation’s very proclivities
Read the full article11 October 2023
The American delusion factory: why Disney has lasted for 100 years
What would Walt Disney have made of the USA we now find ourselves in?
Read the full article04 October 2023
Biden believes in the power of a union.. but the Angry White Males don’t care
Unions are what Joe Biden is. But Trump tells them his rival wants to offshore their jobs to China
Read the full article27 September 2023
A very European King gives a French lesson to the Brexit blowhards
The King's historic visit went like clockwork and sent a message to Brexiteers
Read the full article20 September 2023
The right’s cynical plot to get Biden will fail
The Republicans' campaign to take down the president will be short-lived
Read the full article13 September 2023
The Battle of the Sexes was in 1973. Why are we still having to fight it?
It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago
Read the full article06 September 2023
Hurricane Idalia has passed, but the sickness at the heart of Florida remains
Even before the recent racist murders in Jacksonville, governor Ron DeSantis has continually pushed anti-Black policies in the state
Read the full article30 August 2023
The rise of right-wing anthems and the battle for divided America’s soul
Oliver Anthony’s Rich Men North of Richmond highlights issues found at the very heart of the nation
Read the full article23 August 2023
RICO is ‘the prosecutor’s goldmine’. It could be the end of Trump and Giuliani
A Georgian lawyer has used the game-changing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in her indictment against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani
Read the full article16 August 2023
Can America afford the heavy price of Donald Trump’s free speech?
Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him
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James Baldwin, the man who wrote like a preacher testifying to all humanity
What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity
Read the full article26 July 2023
We’re wrong about race and the right
Should Suella Braverman naturally have a softer view on migration because of the colour of her skin? It’s a dangerous assumption
Read the full article26 July 2023
He’s tried fire and attempted theft, now third parties could win it for Trump
Political disruptors from Joe Biden’s side of the spectrum could split the Democrat vote and open the door for Donald Trump
Read the full article19 July 2023
How Milan Kundera turned me into an exile from New York
The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America
Read the full article12 July 2023
Biden could be president until he’s 86; Trump 82. Is it time for an age limit?
In this new world, a president should be no older than 65 – old enough to have the wisdom of age and the youth to still grasp what needs to be understood
Read the full article05 July 2023
Is America ready for a conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office?
In reality, RFK Jr poses no threat to Joe Biden. The movement around him, however, might
Read the full article19 June 2023
Juneteenth: When America set its people free – almost
The June 19 holiday is Black America’s 4th of July
Read the full article14 June 2023
Trump has an unyielding grip on America’s psyche. He is not done yet
Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick
Read the full article07 June 2023
Trump’s apprentices are entering the boardroom. He’ll destroy them all
Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all
Read the full article31 May 2023
Are Republicans ready to vote for someone who looks like Tim Scott?
A new contender has emerged in the Republican presidential race – the first African American to be elected to the Senate from the South since 1881
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