Tag: The Telegraph

  • Gillian Wearing redefines Birmingham for the 21st century The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-10-31 Bernadette McNulty, Music Editor and Arts Writer Gillian Wearing’s A Real Birmingham Family Photo: Courtesy of Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England and Ikon With her statue of a mixed-race, single-parent family, Gillian Wearing has transformed Birmingham’s city centre, says Bernadette…

  • Mixed race in the UK: am I the future face of this country? The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-11-08 Laura Smith With ‘mixed race’ now the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the country, prejudice should be a thing of the past – but as one writer reveals, we’ve still got a long way to go Where…

  • Stuart McPhail Hall was born on February 3 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica, into a middle class family which subscribed to what he called “the colonial romance”. His father, Herman, was the first non-white person to hold a senior position – chief accountant – with United Fruit in Jamaica. Both his parents had non-African components in…

  • Stuart Hall – obituary The Telegraph London, England 2014-02-11 Stuart Hall was a cultural theorist who coined the term ‘Thatcherism’ and profoundly influenced New Labour Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, came to Britain from his native Jamaica in 1951 and established himself as a leading cultural theorist and as a hero of the…

  • Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as ‘historic’ The Telegraph 2013-09-23 Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Berlin—Karamba Diaby and Charles Huber were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday’s general election to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics… …Mr…

  • Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America’s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart. I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I’d make a £2 monthly donation for…

  • Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen: review The Telegraph 2013-01-29 Judith Flanders Judith Flanders delves into Deborah Cohen’s ‘Family Secrets‘ As former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan put it so memorably at the Leveson Inquiry, “Privacy is for paedos”. In part, this was no more than a tabloid journalist using words carelessly. If he…

  • Kelly Holmes is not fully British, says BNP MEP Andrew Brons The Telegraph 2009-06-13 Patrick Sawer Andrew Brons, the BNP’s first MEP, sparked outrage on Saturday after he said double Olympic gold medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes cannot be regarded as fully British. Mr Brons, who became the first member of the British National Party…

  • Berlin Film Festival: Critics hail new Bob Marley documentary The Telegraph 2012-02-16 Critics at the Berlin Film Festival have been unanimous in their praise of Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary ‘Marley’, which some have called the definitive biography of the reggae singer. Oscar-winning documentary maker Kevin Macdonald has made what critics are calling the definitive biography…

  • Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two’s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two’s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes,…