Articles by: Gavin Lewis

On 25 November 2018 former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard appeared on the BBC global news channel's 100 Women series. On the show's website, Gillard was described as having 'used her experience to help advance women and girls around the world through the promotion of education and leadership'. Obviously the women she'd 'helped' didn't include the refugees she attempted to dump on Malaysia, or those refugee women and children imprisoned in the internment camps Gillard…

Britain's neoliberal media and New Imperialism. In 2005 rioting and racial attacks broke out in Cronulla, a beachside suburb of Sydney. Many of the assailants had daubed banners and even their bodies with the sentiment 'wogs out'. The targets of their attacks were Lebanese Australians. The absurdity of this abuse was that 'wog' is an abbreviation of 'gollywog', an infantilised representation of Black African diasporic identity in doll form. Despite the seemingly ethnicspecific nature of…

The October 2018 conviction of twenty men from Huddersfield in Britain for assorted rape and sexual-assault charges has reignited a moral panic about Muslim and Asian men and a supposed ethnic proclivity for sexual abuse. This has been stimulated by anti-Muslim activist and former English Defence League organiser Tommy Robinson illegally live-streaming events from the court, leading - in what seemed a calculated act of martyrdom designed to incite - to his prosecution for contempt-of-court…