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 are standing by while more racism appears on their site.
@guidofawkes reported to equality watchdog over racism
Guido Fawkes readers jump at any opportunity to be racist
Guido Fawkes continues to turn a blind eye to racism
The cloven hoof as popped out again on the Guido Fawkes blog today as readers of the political gossip site posted a series of appalling comments underneath a story about Respect candidate Lee Jasper’s chances of winning the Croydon North byelection.
Obama second term should be catalyst for Diaspora to demand rights
Barack Obama is rapidly becoming the Muhammad Ali of politics. Floating like a butterfly, drawing the opponent in and taking a few blows before stinging like a bee. And so it proved to be at the Rumble in New York, when Obama clawed back ground lost to Mitt Romney in the first presidential debate.
Yvette Cooper backs strengthening of equalities watchdog
Labour’s shadow minister for women and equality, Yvette Cooper, has called for the coalition to hand back powers to allow the Equality and Human Rights Commission to hold Britain’s 30,000 public authorities to account.
Labour’s Chuka Umunna challenges Lib Dems to save equalities commission
Labour shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna today challenged his Lib Dem opposite number, the business secretary Vince Cable, to reverse policies and save the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Could Chuka Umunna lead Labour? Yes he can!
Could Chuka Umunna become Britain’s first ex-DJ prime minister asks Gary Gibbon on his Channel 4 blog, sidestepping the small matter that he would also become Britain’s first Black PM. The answer is ‘yes’ – on both counts – and if Labour hurry up and make him leader before the next general election they might just stand a chance of winning power.
Britain’s “Obama moment” 25 years ago demands reflection
It’s 25 years since Britain’s “Obama moment” when four black MPs were elected, the first since the 1920’s. The Bernie Grant Trust is to hold a celebration marking the anniversary on 10th June. And if anyone could articulate how far we have yet to go, it would be the late great Bernie.
Time to plan for the 2016 London elections
Brian Paddick is not going to be the London mayor. Such a statement is sacrilege for party loyalists who are required, as if by oath, to keep up the pretence that their man can win on 3rd May when every opinion poll has him between 6% and 12%.
They’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Our black and Asian MPs and aspiring candidates continue to maintain a Trappist silence about the stark race inequalities in Britain today so expertly highlighted in an Independent on Sunday special report earlier this month. We now have 28 BAME MPs but it is now painfully clear most are adding colour to the Commons without bringing the politics of change.
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