The Latest Breaking News from Diane Abbott

While some activists insist it remains a ‘powerful antiracist act’, others say the symbol has been stripped of value

Letters: Readers on Diane Abbott’s suspension from the Labour party after she said in a radio interview that she had no regrets about previous remarks about racism

SNP MPs have joined calls with more than 50 MPs for the UK Government to issue a full arms embargo on Israel

An inquest into the deaths of Alphonsine Djiako Leuga and her 18-year-old daughter Loraine Choulla began on Monday

COMMENT: We need to have a grown-up conversation about racism, writes Ava Vidal – and I believe people are missing what the now partyless MP was actually trying to say

We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

What, exactly, has Diane Abbott said that’s so wrong – wrong enough to get her suspended (again) from the Labour Party? Her observation, that the prejudice that Travellers or Jewish people encounter – or indeed redheads – is different from the racism that black people experience seems like a statement…

LABOUR MPs have rallied around their veteran colleagues Diane Abbott after she was suspended by the party again.

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has said: ‘It is obvious this Labour leadership wants me out’

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