Mike Bankole 🍉
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Mike Bankole 🍉
@mikebankole.bsky.social
I research and write about race, racism, representation and British politics

Usually on @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social

https://substack.com/@mikebankole
Reform often make their racism explicit, but racism isn’t just a Reform problem. From Jenrick’s complaints about a “lack of white faces” in Handsworth to Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech, racism is being mainstreamed across British politics

Me on @lbc.co.uk earlier
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“You're choosing to be complicit. You're choosing to step back while a crime is happening and do nothing about it and not take a principled stance.”

Shared some thoughts on Trump’s state visit and “neutrality” re: the genocide in Gaza on @novaramedia.com last night 👇🏾
September 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“Britain is a country that, in many ways, was built on acts of political dissent.”

Dissent is essential to any functioning democracy. Whatever your views on Palestine Action, proscribing them as terrorists is a dangerous overreach.

Was good to be back on @novaramedia.com yesterday to unpack this 👇🏾
July 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM