Samir Jeraj

Samir Jeraj works as a policy and practice officer at the Race Equality Foundation. He is also a freelance journalist writing on housing, and co-authored "The Rent Trap".

The February 15, 2003 protest ten years on: reflections on a decade

The demonstration on February 15, 2003 was the largest protest march in British history, but failed to stop the invasion of Iraq. A reflection on how the protest, and the war, shaped a decade of politics and culture.

By Samir Jeraj and Heather McRobie

/ 17 Feb 2013

Diversity in the British judiciary: on the backburner for too long

With Britain's House of Lords reform on the cards, what about all the other powerful white men in white wigs?

By Samir Jeraj and Heather McRobie

/ 23 Jul 2012

An Englishman's home is his castle - So long to our dream of ownership?

In the Victorian era it was said that “An Englishman’s home is his castle”, but with an increase in private renters and hurdles to home ownership in the last century, Samir Jeraj asks is this goodbye to our dream of ownership?

By Samir Jeraj

/ 4 Jul 2012

Time to scrap the UK's council tax?

The way Britain finances local government is rigid and undemocratic. For local people to exercise control over their public services new ways of funding are needed and there are alternatives from around the world that do not generate hostility to local government.

By Samir Jeraj

/ 5 Apr 2012

My first strike

After the student protests in December, many young people took part in their first British strike yesterday. A first time striker looks for wider connections in the past and elsewhere as he seeks to discover what it is he is joining.

By Samir Jeraj

/ 1 Jul 2011

In a world where education is a commodity, why not subcontract your PhD?

In trading off plagiarism, essay-writing companies undermine basic goods in education, beginning with critical, independent thinking. But in reducing students to consumers, they may also be giving them a crash course in the prevailing attitude to education.

By Samir Jeraj and Heather McRobie

/ 19 Feb 2011

This isn't the end of the far right in India

To some observers, the recent Ayodhya verdict and lack of mass ethnic violence in India indicates the softening of nationalist tensions. But the subtler, more powerful and pervasive side of Hindu Nationalism in civil society will ensure that this is not the twilight of ethnic strife.

By Samir Jeraj

/ 8 Oct 2010