Hugh Muir
Hugh Muir is associate editor of Guardian Opinion. He writes extensively about social policy, politics, policing, diversity and London government
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It’s not a brick through the window, but covert racial prejudice blights livesA quarter of Britons admit to racial prejudice. Though it’s a lot harder to spot than violent hate crime, it needs urgent attention, writes the Guardian’s Hugh Muir
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Why are there so few BAME leaders in Britain? – podcastThe Colour of Power project has shown that just 3% of Britain’s most powerful people are non-white. What can be done to change this?
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Britain's newspapers could learn a lot from Jimmy the milkmanWe have a 20th-century press ill-equipped in spirit and practical capability to connect with the diversity of 21st-century Britain
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We’ve hit peak injustice: a world without borders, but only for the super-richRevelations about the wealthy buying citizenships confirm a sorry truth: the migration door, closed to the poor, swings open to those with vast fortunes, says Hugh Muir, associate editor of Guardian Opinion
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Why did Boris Johnson blow £940m? Because the system let himThere’s justified anger over the cost of the former mayor’s pet projects. But a system wihout proper checks is also to blame, writes associate editor of Guardian Opinion Hugh Muir
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How much equality is Britain willing to accept?We say we want to end discrimination but we don’t want it enough to dislodge white, male, middle-class power, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir
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Boris Johnson’s interview disaster won’t be treated like Diane Abbott’sWhen Abbott floundered in interviews, the media pounced. But the foreign secretary’s blundering is filed in the folder marked The Joy of Good Old Boris
First thoughts If greedy bosses have broken capitalism, who will fix it?