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The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill – known as the Spy Cops bill – is being debated in the House of Lords today: organisations and individuals, for the reasons below, are asking the Lords to oppose this dangerous Bill.
Continue ReadingConservative Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch has caused uproar after saying that some authors of anti racism books want segregation, and that teaching white privilege as an uncontested fact in schools is unlawful, however do individuals on both sides of the argument really challenge the power structure in place today?
Continue ReadingIt’s easy to get swept up in the euphoria of Black Lives Matter, the protests, the outrage and the constant reminder in the mainstream media that this movement represents the voices of black people, but does it?
Continue ReadingThe immigration debate is the focus of the news once again, The architect of Brexit, Nigel Farage speaks of an “invasion” off the Kent coast, and the arguments for and against never steers far from the accepted scripted punch and Judy show we see in the media. No one mentions the documented facts that Britain’s […]
Continue ReadingProminent British historian David Starkey, has been dropped by his publisher and forced to resign from his honorary position at Cambridge University after comments he made referring to African slavery, but how has these measures addressed racism we have to ask ourselves?
Continue ReadingWith the LGBT marches in London and New York bringing attention to racism within that movement and the sacking of Labour MP, Rebecca Long-Bailey for anti-semitism, despite the fact that Israel has itself been accused of racism towards its own Ethiopian-Jewish community, it can be argued that political correctness is dangerous for democracy and free […]
Continue ReadingThe coronavirus report by Public Health England looking into the reasons why people from BAME backgrounds were four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than the general population, would have arguably been disappointing to fallen NHS heroes, Milton Hanson and Rosie Purves, who witnessed the brutality of racism in the NHS first hand.
Continue ReadingDemolishing statues of once revered British Empire builders and slave traders will probably give the perpetrators a temporary sense of victory over racism and the establishment but in the grand scheme of things the statue of of British and indeed Western economic dominance remains steadfast and untouched.
Continue ReadingNike, Lucasfilm, Apple and Lego are just a few of the many companies lending their support to the Black Lives Matter protests all over the world following the death of 46 year-old George Floyd however, the founding pioneers of the civil rights movement would be mortified to see the black civil rights movement being used […]
Continue ReadingBlack and Asian NHS workers have spoke out against the disproportionate amount of Covid-19 deaths within BAME communities citing racial discrimination within hospital wards and the way staff are utilised.
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