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Ten years on, BBC Two looked back at the riots that spread through English cities

Ten years on from the UK-wide riots sparked by the police killing of Mark Duggan, the story of frontline black communities’ resistance to institutional racism and UK policing is the focus of a unique exhibition. War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights, which opens at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on 6 July, is billed as the first of its kind to accurately access the conditions of black lives across...

I’m on a walk with a friend and only half-listening to her when I’m jolted out of my sunshine-induced reverie. “Boris faked his illness.” Did she really believe that the British prime minister’s near-fatal encounter with covid-19 had been scripted in a Deep State writers’ room? She continues: “They already have a cure; they’re just pretending otherwise.” I hold my tongue. The weather is blissful and I just want to enjoy myself. Debunking conspiracy theories can test even the best friendships. I should know, I’ve been doing it long enough. When the pandemic started, I tried...

In Body, Russ Millions (pictured above) and Tion Wayne rap: ‘Free Big A, he’s too militant’ — which online followers of the singers have interpreted to be a reference to a gang member currently in prison on firearm offences Stab first then talk...On flight-mode when we walk...Chest or back we’ll rip his face offI’ll put holes in your back.’ The lyrics are brutal and the music is ‘drill’ — a raw and aggressive form of British rap with accompanying videos that feature balaclava-wearing men waving weapons and detailing the bloody reality of life on the streets. For Sharon Ken...

The woke agenda continues to tighten its grip on British public life. At times, it feels as if our civic institutions have been taken over by a deranged cult bent on the obliteration of freedom, tradition and even reason. We live in a culture where the former Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd, a trailblazer for women's rights, can be hounded in her 90s for her non-attendance at a Parliamentary sexual harassment training course, and where a Birmingham primary headteacher bans the term 'hello boys and girls' in case it offends transgender sensitivities among pupils. Few public figures have embrac...