Albie Amankona: What Elites Get Wrong About Unite the Kingdom and Pro-Palestine Marches

Albie Amankona: What elites get wrong about Unite the Kingdom and pro-Palestine marches

Albie Amankona is a broadcaster, financial analyst, vice-chair of LGBT+ Conservatives, and co-founder of Conservatives Against Racism I accidentally walked through the Unite the Kingdom march on my way to the spa at a members’ club. As opening lines go for an attack on elites, this is not ideal. Yet it also gave me a better sense of the crowd than much of the commentary produced by people denouncing it from the comfort of their chaise longues. T…

Unite the Kingdom: Hateful theatre of niqab ‘unveiling’ feeds far-right fantasies

Unite the Kingdom: Hateful theatre of niqab ‘unveiling’ feeds far-right fantasies Submitted by Amina Shareef on Tue, 05/19/2026 - 15:20 The crowd cheered as white women took the stage to tear off their niqabs, symbolising the triumph of the West over Islam - and of men over women Three women laugh as they remove their niqabs on stage, during the Unite the Kingdom rally in London on 16 May 2026 (Social media screengrab) On Three women take t…