Sterilisation: it wasn’t just the Nazis
Recently the papers and talk shows have been abuzz about a woman in her thirties who has had thirteen babies, all of whom have been taken away from her — most of them at...
Category: Racism
Further evidence of Human Rights Commission incompetence
Moi Ali on the incompetence of the Equality and Human Rights Commission | Society | The Guardian This appeared on the front page of the Guardian Society supplement today, and was flagged up on...
Big Trev’s leadership pushes out equality staff
Perhaps to my discredit, I have not taken a great interest in the workings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the successor to several official equality commissions set up to monitor various anti-discrimination...
White Privilege part 2: if you don’t like the heat …
In the recent discussion on White privilege and the Muslim community, it has been suggested that white converts to Islam who experience both discrimination and difficulty in integrating to their new community have the...
White privilege and the white convert
Sister Brooke has called for posts on the topic “White Privilege and the Ummah: what does it mean to you, them and us?” for a blog carnival. The subject of racial divisions within the...
Kids are kids
Editor-At-Large: Our bitching and bullying is a form of class warfare – Janet Street-Porter, Commentators – The Independent Yesterday, this article by Janet Street-Porter on the depressing saga of the boy who represented the...
The anti-Semitic holiday destination
New Statesman – You’re Jewish? You can’t be English I read this in this week’s New Statesman, by one Rhoda Koenig, a theatre critic on the Independent and Punch, who lives in London but...
The importance of sensitivity
This week, Carol Thatcher, a TV "personality", economist and daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister, was dropped from a BBC TV show for calling a sportsman a golliwog. The remark was made...
Prince Harry and his little friend
On Sunday, the News of the World (also known as the News of the Screws, a tabloid “scandal sheet” owned by Rupert Murdoch known for printing kiss-and-tell stories) put on its front page a...
The importance of religious over ethnic solidarity
Last week, the New Statesman printed a letter from Randhir Singh Bains of Essex, whose letters commonly appear in the centre-left press in the UK, about the history of inter-Asian solidarity in the UK:...
Casual racism at British Airways exposed
'A world of casual racism' exposed at BA – Home News, UK – The Independent This was the front-page feature in the Independent yesterday: a former senior pilot with British Airways revealed that casual...
‘Get them Polish out of your house or I’ll burn it down’
Ed Jones on being driven from his Salford home by vandalism, racist abuse and violence – Guardian Unlimited This was a really shocking story which was in the Guardian yesterday. The author, who had...
Zimbabwe and racism
Yesterday I passed by the Zimbabwean embassy in the Strand, London, where there was a small group of protestors, black and white, who asked me to sign their petition, which I did. I struck...