Peter Whittle is director of the New Culture Forum and author of Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain, Private Views: Voices from the Front Line of British Culture, Monarchy Matters and, most recently, Being British: What's Wrong With It? (Biteback)
Fundamentalists of the East End
Brick Lane may be hip, but it is part of a borough where a toxic brand of sectarian politics is promoted by threats and intimidation
- 10 July 2014
Islam: The subject artists won't tackle
Far from being cutting-edge, the British cultural establishment ignores the biggest threat to artistic freedom: radical Islam
- 2 December 2013
The BBC’s groupthink on immigration stinks
The corporation has for too long ignored public opinion on multiculturalism, sticking instead to liberal orthodoxies
- 19 August 2013
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