Gary Younge, The Guardian

Gary Younge

The Guardian

United Kingdom

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Past:
  • The Guardian
  • New Statesman
  • The Nation
  • NY Review of Books
  • BillMoyers.com

Past articles by Gary:

Lest we remember: how Britain buried its history of slavery

Slavery is a central and indisputable fact of the nation’s past. But our failure to remember what really happened is more than mere forgetfulness → Read More

What does it mean to be British?

America has its Dream, France its Republic – but Britain suffers from a failure of imagination. → Read More

‘I have no problem being regarded as a Black writer, but I won’t be confined by it’: Gary Younge on race, politics and pigeonholing

At 24, Gary Younge was sent to report for the Guardian on South Africa’s first democratic elections. Thirty years on, he reflects on his career, how the world has changed – and what still needs to be done → Read More

The Strange Thrills of “The Crown”

While the infighting and personal lives of the British royals is boring, their desperate struggle to protect the monarchy makes for fine television. → Read More

The Strange Thrills of “The Crown”

While the infighting and personal lives of the British royals is boring, their desperate struggle to protect the monarchy makes for fine television. → Read More

Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster review – US gun violence under the microscope

A brilliant storyteller attempts to get at the roots of the American obsession with firearms – but leaves readers feeling as hopeless as when they started → Read More

Boris Johnson’s Days Are Numbered

The Tory prime minister’s ethical lapses are legion, constant, and shocking. → Read More

It’s Boris’s Party and Apparently He Can Booze if He Wants To

The interim report into British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s flagrant disregard of his own lockdown rules was devastating. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be forced out of office. At least, not yet. → Read More

What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now

The long read: We were told coronavirus didn’t discriminate, but it didn’t need to – society had already done that for us. But there is a path to a fairer future if we want it → Read More

Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth...

About France’s republican racism. → Read More

Lewis Hamilton: ‘Everything I’d suppressed came up – I had to speak out’

He’s the most successful driver Formula One has ever seen, and its only Black star. Now Lewis Hamilton has a new mission: to change the sport that made him → Read More

Why every statue should come down

Gary Younge was glad to see the figure of Edward Colston removed in Bristol a year ago – but, he argues, even monuments to civil rights leaders are a distortion of how history really works → Read More

Why every single statue should come down

The long read: Statues of historical figures are lazy, ugly and distort history. From Cecil Rhodes to Rosa Parks, let’s get rid of them all → Read More

Under New Leadership Britain’s Labour Party Loses Again

Labour’s defeat in Hartlepool, and in local elections across the country, suggest the northern working class isn’t coming back any time soon. → Read More

A Promised Land by Barack Obama review – an impressive but incomplete memoir

Gary Younge on a memoir with vivid detail and captivating pillow talk, but one that leaves out too much to give a clear view of Obama’s first term → Read More

US minority voters and the future of the Republican party

Gary Younge looks at the history of US voting rights and what the changing demographics of the country mean for Republicans → Read More

Gary Younge on minority voters and the future of the Republican party

A look as the history of US voting rights and what the changing demographics of the country mean for Republicans → Read More

Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote

The long read: How Republicans applied old school racism to new demographics, and lost → Read More

Letters From the June 29/July 6, 2020, Issue

Labour Agonistes Re “After Corbyn, After Covid” by Gary Younge [June 1/8]: As an ex–Labour MP and ex-minister for Europe, I would like to qualify the conventional wisdom from him that the UK chose “to leave the European Union in a referendum. A significant section of the [Labour Party] insisted that people didn’t know what they were doing and should vote again.” It’s true that about one in three… → Read More

What black America means to Europe

The long read: Many have attempted to claim that ‘things are better here’ for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe’s colonial past and its own racist present → Read More