Sunder Katwala

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

On Reading Bernard Crick

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

By Sunder Katwala

/ 23 Dec 2008

Why a British Obama is closer than we think

Black and Asian candidates are making real progress up the British political ladder, argues Sunder Katwala. Nobody can say when we might see a British Barack Obama. In many ways,

By Sunder Katwala

/ 3 Nov 2008

The Return of Enoch

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. UKIP - the United

By Sunder Katwala

/ 28 Oct 2008

The challenges for Miliband's progressive fusion

The head of the British Fabian Society responds to David Miliband's recent article in the Guardian on the future of the Labour party. A rather unconventional approach to

By Sunder Katwala

/ 30 Jul 2008

The future of conservatism

David Cameron and George Osborne have been joined at the hip in their faltering project to return the Conservatives to power. So George Osborne's decision to distance himself

By Sunder Katwala

/ 1 Oct 2007

Much Left

Anthony Barnett, in the OurKingdom blog of openDemocracy can't find much evidence of new thinking on the left. Perhaps there is an echo here of Jimmy Porter (in

By Sunder Katwala

/ 23 Sep 2007