Lesterjholloway

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• Reinstate Mary Seacole onto the Schools Curriculum

  

  Today saw the launch of a campaign to reinstate Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole back onto the schools curriculum after the education secretary Michael Gove... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Africa on Trial in 2013

  

  The prosecution of African leaders in the International Criminal Court in the Hague is set to increase in 2013. This April will see two Kenyan former ministers ... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy New Year!

  

  Thank you to everyone who visited, followed and commented on this blog in 2012. Best wishes and blessings to you all in 2013.I’m not the greatest fan of blog... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Equalities Laws to Go up in Smoke?

  

  The new coalition taskforce responsible for reviewing equalities laws introduced by the last Labour government is to be chaired by an ex-Conservative MP Rob... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 25 Years On, Krishna Maharaj’s Extraordinary Case Will Not Be Forgotten

  

  A blood-stained “do not disturb” sign hung on the door of hotel room 1215 of the Dupont Plaza in down-town Miami. Inside, the bodies of Chinese-Jamaican father... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• @guidofawkes Reported to Equality Watchdog Over Racism

  

  Just last week the political website Guido Fawkes wrote on my blog that they were using software to sift out racist comments from their readers, yet today they... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Eric Pickles, Town Halls Can’t Cut Further Than the Bone

  

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles will hit the poorest hardest with the latest cuts to local government announced yesterday. Local councils will face a new... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Starving Kids – Another Indictment of Dickensian Britain

  

  Over a million children in poverty are not getting free school meals with a survey revealing that three quarters of teachers have experienced kids coming into... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Starving Kids – Another Indictment of Dickensian Britain

  

  Over a million children in poverty are not getting free school meals with a survey revealing that three quarters of teachers have experienced kids coming into... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 CURRENT, DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Moral Bankruptcy? No, Just Changing Patterns of Christianity.

  

  Beyond the new census figures showing a decline in Christianity is an even more rapid fall of the established traditional churches while the charismatic and... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Where Were the Liberals When We Needed Them?

  

  There’s one short speech I regret delivering however well-meaning it was at the time. Back in June 2009 at the Liberal Democrats’ London headquarters, the... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Getting to Grips with Urban Foxes

  

  Foxes. Love them or hate them you can’t ignore them. Which is precisely because they are everywhere. And that, apparently, is our fault for leaving too many... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Guido Fawkes Readers Jump at Any Opportunity to Be Racist

  

  I blogged last month about how the Guido Fawkes website is full of vile racist comments from readers on completely unmoderated threads. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Sutton’s BAME Population Doubles, #census2011 Reveals

  

  New census figures released today show that the proportion of Black and Asian people in the London Borough of Sutton has almost doubled, making it one of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• #census2011 Reveals a Widening Gap in Race Inequality

  

  The release of new figures about the ‘ethnic minority’ population from the 2011 census this morning means that the extent of disproportionate discrimination... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Royal Commission on Legalising Cannabis Could Be Delaying Tactic

  I don’t know why but it’s somehow satisfying to see issues I blogged about when it was off the radar suddenly hit the front-pages some time later!   And so it i... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Voice Profiles Lib Dem Rising Star

  

  The Voice newspaper has profiled rising Lib Dem star Yahaya Kiyingi, 20, today who is striving to become an MP at the next election. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Lib Dems Win Sutton Byelection by Some Distance

  Some pre-Christmas cheer for the Liberal Democrats in Sutton today as we won the Stonecot ward council byelection by some distance. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Terms of Endearment

  The Sun reported that a white “Hip-Hop fan” who was cleared of using racist language when he called a black man the n-word. Perhaps unsurprisingly the man... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Osborne’s Autumn Statement Shows Failure of Economic Policy. Food Kitchens for...

  

  Last week I blogged about the case of Mark and Helen Mullins (1,000 suicides: victims of a failing economic strategy) who committed suicide together after... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY