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• Boris is Not Fit to Hold the Tory Whip

  

  Boris Johnson's remarks about Muslim women who wear the full veil looking like a "letter box" has rightly drawn criticism from all quarters. As experts such as... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What Labour Need to Do to Deal with anti-Semitism

  For Labour and Jeremy Corbyn, it is well documented that anti-Semitism has been a running sore for two years and counting. So how should Labour deal with it? No... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Good Intentions Wrapped in Confusion and Timidity – the Alderdice Lib Dem...

  I resigned from the Lib Dems last month and joined Labour. But as a former Lib Dem activist, who actively championed better race equality, and left the party... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Cable’s Racism Denial Has Echoes of Farron’s Ambiguity Over Gay Sex

  

  Have the Liberal Democrats replaced one leader with an Achilles heel over an equality issue with another? New leader Vince Cable's repeated faux pas on racism... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why the Lib Dems Need a Race Equality Policy Group

  

  The Liberal Democrats have announced a set of policy working groups to develop ideas that might become party policy or even make it into the 2020 manifesto. Rac... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Hellfire and Hatred in the Potteries

  

  The Sun newspaper today accuses Labour of "stoking hatred" by sending texts and WhatsApp messages to Muslims in a byelection ending next week. "Stoke Central's... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• London Lib Dems Fail Once More on Racial Diversity

  

  Caroline Pidgeon's Lib Dems, as the London region was branded in this election, is down to a single solitary Assembly member... Caroline Pidgeon. A far cry... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Momentum is Taking the Pizza on Black Representation

  

  The Jeremy Corbyn fan club that is Momentum has been seeking the deselection of MPs, like deputy leadership candidate and Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy, who has... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 6 Things I Learnt from the Lib Dems Diversity Motion

  Tim Farron went all out in favour of the equality motion and Amendment 2, putting his authority on the line when it wasn't clear at the start of conference... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why I Am Divided on Europe

  

  As we wait for David Cameron to conclude Britain's renegotiation's with the EU in Brussels I wonder whether the details of this deal - whether it is judged to b... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Do I Get People’s Backs Up?

  

  Do I get people's backs up? And more importantly, why? I only ask because today on Facebook fellow Lib Dems have been saying that I get peoples' backs up...... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Cameron Must Address Reparations in Jamaica Today

  

  David Cameron is due to arrive in Jamaica today for a three-day visit amid pressure from JA's politicians and academics to address the issue of reparations for... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Black Britain Has Always Been in a Recession. Now There’s a Recession We’re in...

  

  Black Britain has always been in recession ever since the 1970s. Even in the boom years of the mid-2000's African and Caribbean unemployment was higher than... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Only Affirmative Action Can Tackle Scandal of Disproportionate Black Unemployment

  

  Black Britain has always been in recession ever since the 1970s. Even in the boom years of the mid-2000's African and Caribbean unemployment was higher than... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Banning Hate Preachers is Not the Answer

  

  Vince Cable and the Liberal Democrats are right to oppose Conservative moves to ban 'hate preachers' from Britain's universities. Of course genuine hate... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Banning Hate Preachers is Not the Answer

  

  Vince Cable and the Liberal Democrats are right to oppose Conservative moves to ban ‘hate preachers’ from Britain’s universities. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Hounding of Miranda Grell

  

  "So what's Miranda Grell, formerly convicted of homophobic smears on her Liberal Democrat opponent, up to these days?" That was the headline of an article by... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Hounding of Miranda Grell

  

  “So what’s Miranda Grell, formerly convicted of homophobic smears on her Liberal Democrat opponent, up to these days?” That was the headline of an article by th... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Political Media Class Do Not Understand the Greens

  

  Evidently yesterday was a disaster for the Green Party. Their leader Natalie Bennett's 'excruciating' car crash interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC radio was... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Political Media Class Do Not Understand the Greens

  

  Evidently yesterday was a disaster for the Green Party. Their leader Natalie Bennett’s ‘excruciating’ car crash interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC radio was... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY