Archie Bland, deputy editor of the ‘Indy’ on the Paris Brown affair: … no one had thought to check on the hapless girl’s Twitter account, but the Mail on Sunday did, had a look through it, and alighted upon a “torrent of foul-mouthed rants” from which it constructed a front page. And now Paris Brown has had to resign. Some of the tweets are awful. Then again, this is the…
…until you realise you’re the one getting stuck with the bill: A 14-year race discrimination court battle has cost the taxpayer almost a million pounds. Equality campaigner Natasha Sivanandan won £420,000 in compensation after a council-funded anti-racism group turned her down for a job. A job..? In what department, I wonder? The row began in June 1999 when 58-year-old Ms Sivanandan, from Wood Green, north London, applied for a job as a…
So sayeth Magatte Wade, who decides to use the pages of CiF to heap scorn on those who do claim to do good works. Not because the money gets diverted and subverted, but because she loathes the attitude with which it’s given by ‘those from privilege’: Last Saturday I spoke at the Harvard Women in Business Conference, an annual event that I love. And not a hotbed of privilege? Later,…
For Somalis in Britain, the answer at least seems to be ‘Yes’: Teachers and community workers hope they’ll be able to harness that enthusiasm and confidence in their efforts to address the long-standing problem of Somali pupils’ underachievement. The Department for Education’s statistics on attainment aren’t broken down into ethnic groups beyond broad categories like “Black African”, so there is no national data on how Somali pupils are faring.But in…
…he can’t seem to hit one even when it’s in the room with him: The UK is one of the few major nations not to have a national forensic science institute and, in the wake of government market-based policy, no longer has a national forensic science service. The main repercussion of these deficiencies is fragmentation and creeping deregulation. Unless standards are unified, certified and monitored, unprofessional practices arise as do…
A nightclub is considering taking legal action against a DJ who claims he was sacked because there were “too many black people” at his performances. The nightclub in question? It’s in Croydon. Yes. I know… Tiger Tiger said it axed the DJ after he repeatedly ignored warnings to “tone down” the music he was playing. The company categorically denies his allegations and is considering taking legal action. And what exactly…
Dr Chris Chambers, from the University of Cardiff’s School of Psychology, said the results should be viewed with ‘extreme caution’. He said: ‘We don’t know whether the drug influenced racial attitudes only or whether it altered implicit brain systems more generally. ‘And we can’t rule out the possibility that the effects were due to the drug incidentally reducing heart rate. So although interesting, in my view these preliminary results are…
In a statement, head teacher Janet Adamson said: “We are unable to discuss conduct issues relating to individual children. “However, in this matter, we are satisfied we have acted in accordance with the council’s guidance for schools on the reporting of racist incidents.” Vanessa Harvey-Samuel, head of localities and learning at Hull City Council, said: “There is a statutory duty to report any incident that is perceived to be racist…
And that someone is Richard Wilson, who is conducting an investigation for Channel Four (don’t laugh!) into those infuriating voice recognition software options that are supposed to make our lives easier: In the TV programme, I try to book a cinema ticket. The computer asks me which film I’d like to see. I tell it: ‘The Adventures Of Tintin.’ ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?’ it responds. I repeat: ‘The Adventures Of…
In the aftermath of last week’s headline-dominating court case, Vikram Dodd braves the mean streets of Eltham to see if racism still exists (not realising he could find plenty without ever leaving the ‘Guardian’ head office): Barber Kwabena Boateng, 35, came to Britain in 2000 from Ghana, a year after the Macpherson report. Boateng said he had not experienced any direct racism, but said: “You can’t see it, but sometimes…
A shopkeeper has been banned from selling Enid Blyton inspired golliwogs at a vintage market for fear they might cause racial offence. Viv Endecott, who sells merchandise inspired by the children’s author, has pulled out of this weekend’s Boscombe Vintage Market rather than agree to the order from Bournemouth council. *sigh* Miss Endecott says the council’s equality and diversity manager told her that, although he accepted she was not racist,…
…so what’s in it for Joana Gorjão Henriques that she welcomes a change to all that? For years, modern Portugal has been struggling to find a way of talking about national identity and race. Has it? Or is that what you think, and so assume everyone else does? Even though Portugal has racial profiling, race crime and the daily subordination of black people by whites… WTF? There are cotton plantations…
..at least, on the subject of chavs*: Chavs really are the gifts that keep on giving – in their case, giving utterly worthless people the chance to lash out at an underprivileged group without feeling the hot hand of the law on their cold shoulder. ‘Underprivileged’..? Julie, you’re conflating chavdom with poverty, aren’t you? … I have noticed many times over the past decade that chav-baiters are often joyless, sex-starved…
I think that it is becoming generally understood as a fact rather than a conspiracy theory that in the 20th century a plot was hatched to bring about Marxist revolution in Judeo-Christian countries where the people had an interest in the hegemony, and the social classes had shared values. It is becoming – dare I say – mainstream to understand that something that we now know as Political Correctness (PC)…
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