A People’s Vote will fight the racism festering beneath Brexit
In the first of a three-part article series written by For Our Future’s Sake campaigners, Jason Arthur argues that Brexit was fuelled by anti-immigrant sentiment.
Racism
Army-veteran finally convicted for antisemitic hate speech
Neo-Nazi leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner has been convicted after the CPS delayed the trial by over two years.
A Labour MP is being targeted with racist mail after Windrush scandal
David Lammy shared an abusive letter he received, telling him that as a black man he should be “grateful” to be in Britain.
BBC Radio 4 gets into trouble with Rivers of Blood production
Listeners were not pleased when the public broadcaster announced it would transmit Enoch Powell’s infamous speech for the first time ever.
Inside Yarl’s Wood: ‘Seema begged for help as blood seeped through her bandages’
Immigration detention is inhumane, expensive and pointless. It compounds the trauma of the already traumatised. There is no place for it in today’s Britain.
Five times Katie Hopkins obviously should have been sacked – but wasn’t
A brief recap some of the bile and hatred Hopkins has spouted that show she is totally discredited as a ‘journalist’.
We shouldn’t praise the Tories for resettling 8,000 Syrian refugees
Not only is this far too few, it is also a distraction from the numerous other ways in which the Government is letting refugees down.
The government just released data showing stark racial inequalities in the UK
The audit release coincides with another study that shows the poorest BME households will see their living standards drop by 20 per cent because of austerity.
Parents and teachers call for school census boycott amid deportation fears
The Department for Education has been sharing details of school children’s nationality and place of birth with the Home Office.
The racism we see today didn’t come out of nowhere. To fight it, we need to look at history
A new book traces the roots of racism in Britain up to the present day – and shows the left need to be bolder in battling it.