Mitch Mitchell

Mitch Mitchell introduces a new series of playlists of 'music of the people'. He starts this week with Doo Wop.

In recent years, especially since the referendum, electoral politics, as well as discussions in the media, have been predicated on increasingly open hostility to migrants and refugees. Mitch Mitchell recounts four of the most popular anti-migration myths and why they are wrong.

As homelessness figures have risen yet again, Mitch Mitchell looks at the history of housing in the UK the post-war period.

Mitch Mitchell argues that putting more police on the streets will not solve the problem of knife crime and will lead to more targeting of BAME youth.

The post war youth subculture that became the subject of a moral panic.

Jeremy Hardy was part of a left-wing generation who transformed British comedy and will be sadly missed.

Mitch Mitchell is a regular visitor to Calais a part of his work with Refugee Lifeboat.

Mitch Mitchell looks at the recent Commons report into sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector

Mitch Mitchell writes on Refugee Lifeboat, a new organisation that aims to marry humanitarian aid for refugees with an uncompromising political stand against state racism

Mitch Mitchell writes on Saturday's march of the self-described "anti-extremism" group the Football Lads Alliance. Photos by Steve Eason.