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About Sunder Katwala

Sunder Katwala is director of British Future, the new think tank dedicated to issues of identity, immigration and fairness.

Articles by Sunder Katwala

Wednesday 1st February

The English conversation has finally begun. What took so long?

Sunder Katwala, 1 February 2012

Englishness is finally finding a voice, after more than a century. Why has it been muted this long, and is it time now for a strong civic nation, or will an England of blood and soil emerge?

Monday 16th January

Ruder, more liberal and as class-conscious as ever: how Britain sees itself today

Sunder Katwala, 16 January 2012

As arguments over nationhood and independence once again grab the political agenda, Sunder Katwala, director of a new think tank probing attitudes to identity and integration, finds cause for optimism

Tuesday 4th October

Labour's immigration muddle, and a conference of confusion

Sunder Katwala, 4 October 2011

The Labour Party doesn't know what to do or say about immigration. Last week's conference was a case in point, as two leading thinkers offered radical proposals for tightening immigration that even they admitted are unworkable.

Monday 20th September

The Left and the Big Society I: Sunder Katwala

Sunder Katwala, 20 September 2010

How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society idea? Niki Seth Smith talks to leading people and institutions on the left to ask them how they see it, beginning with Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society who blogs at Next Left.

Thursday 22nd April

Let everyone watch the debate! Ten reasons to show it live on analog TV

Sunder Katwala, 22 April 2010

Sunder Katwala calls for the BBC to broadcast the second general election debate

Friday 15th January

Anti-fascist MEP threatens legal action over expulsion by Tories

Sunder Katwala, 15 January 2010

Edward McMillan-Scott MEP may take legal action against the Conservative Party after an internal appeal panel upheld his expulsion from the party.

Thursday 7th January

Political lessons from 1910

Sunder Katwala, 7 January 2010

As we face the prospect of a Conservative Government, how we imagine our system ought to work will return to haunt us. Here Sunder Katwala, of the Fabians, takes on a defining 'historic' myth of British government.

Tuesday 23rd December

On Reading Bernard Crick

Sunder Katwala, 23 December 2008

The main biographer of George Orwell never became a global figure like his subject. But Bernard Crick, who has just died at the age of 79, was a strange influence on New Labour and like many political thinkers on the left around the world, he struggled with the fate of socialism and its relationship to democracy. Here, Sunder Katwala, the current General Secretary of the Labour Party's oldest and most distinguished pressure group, the Fabian Society, lays claims to Crick's legacy of sharp engagement combing intellectual overview with practical (or potentially practical) politics. And in a brief comment openDemocracy founder Anthony Barnett differs in his estimation.

Monday 3rd November

Why a British Obama is closer than we think

Sunder Katwala, 3 November 2008

Black and Asian candidates are making real - if slow - progress up Britain's political ladder too

Tuesday 28th October

The Return of Enoch

Sunder Katwala, 28 October 2008

Some may now hail the legacy of Enoch Powell's British nationalism, but his pessimistic vision was a recipe for greater strife, argues Sunder Katwala.

Wednesday 30th July