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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...

Blair's swansong In Africa exposes press hypocrisy

Richard KeebleInteresting to see how Britain's national Fleet Street press coverage of dictators always shifts when they move from being our  'enemies' to  'friends' (or vice versa). Remember how Saddam Hussein, former Preside ...

Bush can kill me but not my ideas

FIDEL CASTRO, President of CubaSome days ago, while analysing the expenses involved in the construction of three submarines of the Astute series, I said that with this money "75,000 doctors could be trained to look after 150 million people, assuming t ...

To PM Brown. A Letter From The-Latest...

Dear Gordon,Congratulations to you, Prime Minister in waiting. I hope you're enjoying yourself as you proceed around the country, "listening and learning" while counting the days until you finally get your hands on the keys to 10 Downing Str ...

Sell-by date con of supermarket giants

Tesco and Sainsbury stores have been  'done up like a kipper' by BBC One's Whistleblower programme which exposed the underhand, under-the-counter, rotten practice of selling fish, poultry and other meat way past their sell-by date, use-by ...

Why Brown should grasp the PFI nettle

Treasury claims that a flag ship New Labour policy which has deeply divided its supporters offers value for money are based on data that is non-existent or false, says investigative journalist Allyson Pollock.Research published this month seriously u ...

For Eyes...

Deborah HobsonWhoever landed us with the phrase "the eyes are the windows to the soul" has a lot to answer for. In the cut-throat, media-obsessed world of Westminster politics, some of our more ambitious and wily politicians have taken this ancie ...

Is Oprah Winfrey 'racist'?

Joan WalshIt's hard to be white these days. I mean, one morning Don Imus is America's king of the talk universe; the next thing you know he's lost his radio and television perch for calling the Rutgers University women's mainly Black basket ...

Cameron the hollow Easter egg

Charlie BrookerDavid Cameron is an idiot. A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls. I don't like him. And I've got a terribl ...

Bring her back, you fools

Top BBC journalists have slammed executives for sacking a Black woman newsreader who is a national institution, writes Chris Gaynor. Question Time host David Dimbleby has waded into the row, along with a string of other hacks who blasted BBC chiefs for ax ...

How truth is the first casualty of war

Katriona Lewis Since embarking on a little voyage of discovery I have forsaken the Bronte sisters, Hunter S Thompson, Hemmingway and Orwell in favour of devouring anything any war reporter has ever had to say. Some are frankly dull, others are challenging ...

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