At a far-right Tommy Robinson rally in London this weekend, women racialised as white mocked Muslim women by wearing burkhas on stage and theatrically removing them to cheers from the crowd. A few years ago in France, schools moved to ban abayas, and back in 2016, images circulated of French police forcing Muslim women on beaches to remove full-body swimwear. So which is it? Are women free to wear what they want or only what white Europeans are comfortable seeing? Why is wear

Britain is wrestling with the concepts of identity and belonging; questions that have existed for as long as these isles have been inhabited. What it means to be British, or to be English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish, is now being explored more urgently than ever. Across the country, there is a growing sense of disenfranchisement: people feeling unsettled, disconnected, and as though their identity, or even the country itself, has been lost or changed beyond recognition. Yet be

This week has been filled with many highlights for me. Honest conversations. Openness. Courage. These three elements have been demonstrated by all those I have worked with and led in development sessions. And yet, alongside those moments of hope, the heaviness of the current societal climate has been ever-present. I found myself likening this societal backdrop to the experience of tinnitus; that persistent, underlying noise that is sometimes possible to mute, and sometimes im

Authenticity in leadership is one of those words we hear everywhere… but living it, especially in environments shaped by inequality and long-standing organisational habits, is a very different thing. Over the years; whether in classrooms, leadership meetings, or during my TEDx talk ; I’ve come back to one truth again and again: authentic leadership requires deep presence. And presence isn’t something you can teach through policies or scripts. It shows up through how we lead,

Over the past few weeks, the UK has seen a rise in anti-immigration protests. From London to towns across England and Wales, the...