As the European Union is struggling to deal with the migrant crisis (hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean), German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on record as saying “you can’t all come,” ...

Multiculturalism emerged in the late twentieth century as a policy paradigm recognising the rights of distinct cultural, ethnic or religious groups within liberal democracies. Its core aim is to ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently made headlines when she pronounced multiculturalism in Germany a failure. Shortly before, a Globe and Mail editorial argued that Canadians should eradicate ...

The Australian experience of multiculturalism has been very different from the British one, and from that of other countries in Europe. Australia has a record that is almost unblemished by tensions, ...

Numerous heads of state including Nicolas Sarkozy (France), Angela Merkel (Germany), and David Cameron (UK) have recently proclaimed that multiculturalism has been an utter failure (see here). Many ...

One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led off last October by claiming ...

When the word ‘multiculturalism’ began echoing in the West after the collapse of communism in the late 1980s, many on the left sides of the ideological divide suspected it to be yet another expression ...

It's official: 45 years after Enoch Powell made his "rivers of blood" speech – the fearmongers have lost the war, while those who think Britain is stronger with a multiracial and multicultural ...

Much has changed in relation to the discussion of Britishness since my collection of essays, Not Easy Being British: Colour, Culture and Citizenship was published in 1992. For me the most important is ...