Shabna Begum

Dr Shabna Begum is interim co-CEO at the Runnymede Trust and author of ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London’ (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)

When far-right ideas become mainstream, it’s people of colour who suffer

The Tories and Labour competing over hardline immigration policies only helps to mainstream far-right ideas

By Shabna Begum

/ 23 Jan 2024

When far-right ideas become mainstream, it’s people of colour who suffer

What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification

Fifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat

By Shabna Begum

/ 15 Mar 2023

What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification