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March 01, 2021

Gay British Tamil community: a double barrier to celebrating Pride

Gay Pride is synonymous with inclusivity and celebration. However, for people of colour, few safe and intersectional spaces exist. This is especially true within the British Tamil community, of...

What`s So Great About Being British?

  Debates have been raging about Britishness. Is it summed up by the flag of St George? Embodied by our cricket or football team? Hang on. Doesn''t that exclude the Scots, Welsh, Irish and others in this multicultural country? According ...

Don't You Just Hate Meddlers Like Bono?

John Sorrie I see ever more the influence of ‘do-gooders’ – those who like to be seen to be nice and caring and ever more I find myself railing against them. Groups like so-called animal rights protesters, ‘Friends’ of th ...

'Colour prejudice isn't all about black and white'

As a mixed-race woman, I understand why our Black communities would prefer to ignore the colour prejudice that exists among us. Some say that we have bigger problems to deal with.However, colourism is something that continues to affect us negatively and h ...

'Grenfell Tower survivors must be embraced by carnival revellers'

Notting Hill Carnival’s moment of silence for the victims of the Grenfell Tower inferno is a gesture all will respect. But that is not enough. A tangible show of solidarity with the residents from many lands is needed. First: because Grenfell b ...

PC Fletcher murder mystery deepens over 'national security' claim

Accusation and suspicion has always surrounded the unsolved fatal shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher, 25, outside the Libyan embassy in St James’s Square, London, on April 17 1984 writes, Richard Lance Keeble.Libyan exiles in the UK were protesting ...

US super bomb: How the media 'humanised' mass destruction

One of the main functions of the dominant media is to naturalise and humanise the horror of contemporary warfare.As Edward Herman, who., with Noam Chomsky introduced the "propaganda model" concept, comments: "Doing terrible things in an org ...

Racism, foreign wars and a Trump presidency

Rev Dr Martin Luther King's call to America to abandon racism and unjust wars haunts the nation as Donald J Trump takes over the White House. It rings as true today as in the civil rights and Viet Nam 1960’s.Unjust acts by the powerful against t ...

'How Britain's media fuels public unrest'

Media-fired triggers of the August riots in 2011 that started in Tottenham - prejudice, disinformation, and institutional racism - are still crackling away in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.Negative press reporting encou ...

'New London Mayor must deliver on city's housing meltdown'

Whoever wins the race to become the capital's Mayor in May faces an unprecedented crisis in housing its citizens, according to the London Housing Commission’s final report Building a new deal for London. City chiefs and town halls will ...

Fox News: 'A sewer of rancid, fear-mongering campaigns'

Once again, America is confronted with a lethal threat from abroad that Obama is powerless to stop. Sound familiar? The bile is coming in "over the transom" so quickly it’s getting hard to keep up, as the conservative me ...

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