Bonnie Greer
29 November 2023
Why I’m no longer calling myself African American
Africa will always be part of my identity – but not all of it
Read the full article22 November 2023
Barbra Streisand tells us her truth
She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such
Read the full article15 November 2023
America is looking for a Swift political change
Joe Biden is too old and Donald Trump is too divisive – is a Taylor-made change on the horizon?
Read the full article08 November 2023
On a November day 60 years ago, both a president and a dream died
The assassination of JFK forever changed America’s national psyche
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I won’t go back to the British Museum while austerity Osborne is in charge
He knows that unless parliament passes a new act, the museum cannot restitute the Parthenon Marbles
Read the full article18 October 2023
Like Savile, Trump is a monster who understands how to push our buttons
The two media monsters were formed out of their nation’s very proclivities
Read the full article11 October 2023
The American delusion factory: why Disney has lasted for 100 years
What would Walt Disney have made of the USA we now find ourselves in?
Read the full article04 October 2023
Biden believes in the power of a union.. but the Angry White Males don’t care
Unions are what Joe Biden is. But Trump tells them his rival wants to offshore their jobs to China
Read the full article27 September 2023
A very European King gives a French lesson to the Brexit blowhards
The King's historic visit went like clockwork and sent a message to Brexiteers
Read the full article20 September 2023
The right’s cynical plot to get Biden will fail
The Republicans' campaign to take down the president will be short-lived
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The Battle of the Sexes was in 1973. Why are we still having to fight it?
It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago
Read the full article06 September 2023
Hurricane Idalia has passed, but the sickness at the heart of Florida remains
Even before the recent racist murders in Jacksonville, governor Ron DeSantis has continually pushed anti-Black policies in the state
Read the full article30 August 2023
The rise of right-wing anthems and the battle for divided America’s soul
Oliver Anthony’s Rich Men North of Richmond highlights issues found at the very heart of the nation
Read the full article23 August 2023
RICO is ‘the prosecutor’s goldmine’. It could be the end of Trump and Giuliani
A Georgian lawyer has used the game-changing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in her indictment against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani
Read the full article16 August 2023
Can America afford the heavy price of Donald Trump’s free speech?
Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him
Read the full article02 August 2023
James Baldwin, the man who wrote like a preacher testifying to all humanity
What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity
Read the full article26 July 2023
We’re wrong about race and the right
Should Suella Braverman naturally have a softer view on migration because of the colour of her skin? It’s a dangerous assumption
Read the full article26 July 2023
He’s tried fire and attempted theft, now third parties could win it for Trump
Political disruptors from Joe Biden’s side of the spectrum could split the Democrat vote and open the door for Donald Trump
Read the full article19 July 2023
How Milan Kundera turned me into an exile from New York
The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America
Read the full article12 July 2023
Biden could be president until he’s 86; Trump 82. Is it time for an age limit?
In this new world, a president should be no older than 65 – old enough to have the wisdom of age and the youth to still grasp what needs to be understood
Read the full article05 July 2023
Is America ready for a conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office?
In reality, RFK Jr poses no threat to Joe Biden. The movement around him, however, might
Read the full article19 June 2023
Juneteenth: When America set its people free – almost
The June 19 holiday is Black America’s 4th of July
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Trump has an unyielding grip on America’s psyche. He is not done yet
Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick
Read the full article07 June 2023
Trump’s apprentices are entering the boardroom. He’ll destroy them all
Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all
Read the full article31 May 2023
Are Republicans ready to vote for someone who looks like Tim Scott?
A new contender has emerged in the Republican presidential race – the first African American to be elected to the Senate from the South since 1881
Read the full article24 May 2023
Disney IS America.. so DeSantis will rue burning down the House of Mouse
The Florida governor has taken on a formidable foe in a battle for the heart of American childhood
Read the full article17 May 2023
San Francisco is plagued, not just by drugs and crime, but by the tech boom
The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious
Read the full article10 May 2023
The coronation he wove shows Charles may be the last of his kind
The coronation of King Charles belongs to us. To our time and our age. But, will it be the last?
Read the full article03 May 2023
Meaningful reparation for slavery will lie in the hands of the young royals
Has King Charles given humanity a gift towards healing the intergenerational trauma caused by slavery?
Read the full article26 April 2023
Even the writers of Succession couldn’t get away with this Murdoch storyline
Trump is back, Carlson is gone - it’s all about the money for Murdoch. The real-life Logan Roy is bigger than fiction
Read the full article19 April 2023
Déjà vu all over again: The fight for gun control and racial justice in Tennessee
Two young Black Democrats expelled from the state’s legislature are channelling the legacy of civil rights resistance in the South
Read the full article13 April 2023
Trump now has a martyrdom myth to exploit
Republicans are hailing the former president a martyr, but Donald Trump must not win again. He is a demagogue and potential dictator
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