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Neo-Nazi police officer convicted of belonging to banned terror group
“I’m not racist, I just don’t like people who’s skin is darker than mine!"
‘Discriminatory and counter-productive’ – senior Tories join Corbyn to oppose Covid passports
More than 70 MPs have signed a cross-party pledge opposing the use of Covid status certification.
‘Once you start covering it up, it is giving the green light to racists’ – Doreen Lawrence slams report
“My son was murdered because of racism and you cannot forget that. Once you start covering it up, it is giving the green light to racists."
Race report used ‘cherry-picked’ data, claim public health experts
“It’s very, very disappointing, not systematic at all. And health is one of the areas that most affects minority groups in the UK.”
After deadly dog attack near Thames, coastal visitors urged to give seals space
Female seals are heavily pregnant or pupping during the summer and getting too close can lead to the mammals stampeding on rocks which prove fatal to mothers and pups, while disturbed females may also not build up the fat reserves they need to feed their young properly.
No ‘actual institutional racism’ in UK, No 10 report concludes – just ‘deep mistrust’ in system
“As we saw in the early days of the pandemic, 60% of the first NHS doctors and nurses to die were from our BAME communities. For Boris Johnson to look the grieving families of those brave dead in the eye and say there is no evidence of institutional racism in the UK is nothing short of a gross offence.”
Huge salaries – some almost half a million a year – for academy bosses ‘verging on criminality’
“So many salaries, paid for from the public purse, rising over the £200,000 mark, and some well-publicised, almost reaching half a million pounds.”
Misconduct, misogyny and the Metropolitan Police
Downing Street recently unveiled plans to have plain clothed police officers in nightclubs to protect women but that begs the question - who is going to protect the women from the Police Officers?