My kids stumbled across these remarkable colonial-era racist caricatures of the Irish in a Belfast coffee shop of all places today. They were in a book that the proprietors had left lying around, trying to make the cafe seem ‘cultured’. God knows what was actually written in it…

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

I honestly think a pledge to abolish the Race Relations Act is potentially on the cards too, given Farage’s championing of Lucy Connolly

‘Good humanitarian reason’: Ed Davey calls for emergency programme to clear asylum backlog

A damning indictment of where the UK is at right now where an African Caribbean student group is moved to issue advice like this, urging people to avoid great swathes of the city because of racist vigilantes

Forty years ago, Muslim parents across #Bradford withdrew their children from school in protest against a controversial headteacher. Read the full story by Kieran Connell here ⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/09/08/b...

This genocide belongs to Britain, too. The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time. We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As thousands gathered in London for right-wing demonstrations on Saturday, as well as the growing number of adhoc St Georges flags across the UK, we look to our archive for important context. See our (Anti)Fascism tag, as well as Kieran Connell's piece earlier this year:

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

This is utterly terrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exhibit A - truly abhorrent www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Excited to hold an advanced copy of this in my hands

Tommy Robinson: 'I challenge any journalist to come to Luton and find Muslims with non Muslims.' I'm a journalist from Luton and this man is talking utter nonsense. A pleasure to work on this film, chatting to incredible people in my hometown and separating fact from fiction.

This is an excellent piece of reportage by journalist and historian @tajali1.bsky.social from the streets of Luton, recently targetted by #far-right trouble makers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

The first Muslim to represent England at senior level too

I have a long-read essay in @hyphenonline.com - it’s about a racist schoolteacher in Bradford, what happened when 40 years ago parents and pupils tried to get him sacked, and the resonance of what happened for our own culture wars today hyphenonline.com/2025/09/08/b...

I have a long-read essay in @hyphenonline.com - it’s about a racist schoolteacher in Bradford, what happened when 40 years ago parents and pupils tried to get him sacked, and the resonance of what happened for our own culture wars today hyphenonline.com/2025/09/08/b...

The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.

If you’re in Sheffield, Dublin or Bath this autumn, come along for a conversation about immigration and multiculturalism, issues that have sadly become some of the most divisive of our times

Upcoming Events! 📅🎟️ @kieranconnell.bsky.social, author of Multicultural Britain: A People’s History, will be speaking at three events this autumn!🍂 Grab your tickets: 📍25 Oct - Sheffield 👉 tinyurl.com/76hsjze9 📍3 Nov - Dublin 👉 tinyurl.com/s8u33rj9 📍25 Nov - Bath 👉 tinyurl.com/5cs95ctp

Trumpian

Hurrah and hats off to these signatories At last someone starts the process of pushing back And good to see female Labour MPs finding a way to say, enough www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“The elite….would far rather have riots outside migrant hotels than in response to benefit cuts, falling wages or piercing poverty. If we really want to ‘look after our own’, it’s a trap we must avoid.” @kenanmalik.bsky.social in today’s observer observer.co.uk/news/columni...

This is a defining moment. Far right activists are seizing the best opportunity since WWII to redefine Englishness as white nativist hostility to black and brown people seeking asylum. We’re at the edge of a precipice. We either condone or resist that definition. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour have now put out a response to the Farage speech, in the name of Ellie Reeves - it’s all about the practicalities of deportation and detention. Suggests they’re just fine with his tone/language/the very dark turn this whole debate is taking.

Deport all asylum seekers and promote “Judeo-Christian values” is proper NF-BNP-neo-Nazi stuff

“Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the idea that Tebbit helped usher in, that immigrants and their descendants are suspect people who should be required to prove their loyalty to Britain, remains a central pillar of the political culture.” More from @kieranconnell.bsky.social at Broadsides

Who is the smuggest man in Britain and how can it be anyone other than Tim Spector?

My article on the history of home video in Northern Ireland in today's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk. 'Say Yes to VHS', the new series of the Wonder Cinema podcast with @bhmbelfast.bsky.social launches tomorrow.

I have a piece on @thenacbs.bsky.social blog reflecting on Norman Tebbit’s death last month - “On Tebbit and Cricket Tests” www.nacbs.org/post/on-tebb...

I have a piece on @thenacbs.bsky.social blog reflecting on Norman Tebbit’s death last month - “On Tebbit and Cricket Tests” www.nacbs.org/post/on-tebb...

Come and listen to me talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN at Sheffield’s Off the Sheff festival alongside @johnsiddique.bsky.social and others this autumn. 25 October at 7pm. Get your tickets here 👇 offtheshelf.org.uk/events/diver...

Britain can’t go on like this. The normalisation of extreme racism via social media & the UK gov cosplaying the far right has brought us to a very dangerous place - perhaps the most dangerous since the 1950s

Here's a simple 3 part thread to give you a summary of how these "concerned residents" patrols work. Starring Neil Pinkerton and some random guy. Incident 1: Napping In A Public Park While Not White

“Britain could have developed India, Cyprus, Fiji, Malta, Saint Lucia, the Bahamas, Australia, Canada, South Africa and Ireland…In the coming meritocracy, perhaps Britain could regain these nations” A salaried Reform UK advisor writes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As the anti-migrant protests continue, stoked by politicians, the media and far right, there’s a toxic lie taking hold: asylum seekers are a danger to British women and girls.  My col. in today’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How the attention economy has allowed fringe ideologues and juvenile impulses to rot the culture - not from the inside, but from online www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Genocide. A textbook case. A horror.

In short, this policy agenda, article, headline & front page placement is, I believe, a crock of shit. Observer readers, you deserve better than this.

#SundayShowcase highlights "Multicultural Britain - A People’s History" by Kieran Connell, detailing the nation's diverse evolution, including a chapter on 90s Balsall Heath. Ref: L 21.85 #LibraryofBham @kieranconnell.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

With the recent increase of far-right groups targeting housing for asylum seekers in the UK, Kieran Connell's @kieranconnell.bsky.social piece published earlier this year, on Labour, immigration and the far-right after Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech, resonates again: www.historyworkshop....

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

“Gaza now has grim distinction of having the highest number of amputee children per capita in the world. An entire generation of children subjected to ongoing military attacks, loss of parents & long-term malnutrition will suffer severe physical & mental repercussions for the rest of their lives”

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info! www.kieranconnell.com/events