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An eulogy to Willis Wilkie
Share/Bookmark Every day in every community, ordinary working people do extraordinary acts of great selflessness and courage in the service of their community. We tend to hear and write about luminaries and celebrities and not about them. I was privileged to be asked to join Fr Nigel Orchard at Christ the Redeemer C of E
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Making History by Reclaiming ‘Black History’
Share/BookmarkThis short paper is my contribution to the ongoing debate about the future of Black History Month in the UK. It is in response to the ‘Position Paper’ written by Nubian Jack for discussion at the meeting on African Heritage Month International at the Africa Centre, Covent Garden, London, on 22 February 2013. Nubian Jak
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David Cameron tries being ‘cruel to be kind’
Share/BookmarkIt was truly stomach churning to hear David Cameron on Monday 22 October 2012 unctuously setting out his government’s revised law and order agenda for dealing with the presence of knives and guns on our streets, punishing and rehabilitating offenders and giving private contractors outcomes related incentives for reducing offending. This was the same David
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Gus John criticises Wildman’s assertions about Jamaican judges
Share/Bookmark Hugh Wildman, a former senior prosecutor who has served across the Caribbean, asserted earlier this month that judges in Jamaica and the rest of the region are not capable of delivering judgements that are on par with their British counterparts. Professor Gus John reacted to his remarks, saying: Hugh Wildman is not only making some very
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Reviewing legal education: hell of a job
Share/Bookmark The following article was published by The Guardian on July 13th, 2012 Professor Gus John, the chair of the diversity group advising the biggest review of training for lawyers in thirty years, has issued a call for “affirmative action” to compel the legal profession to recruit more students from lower socio-economic backgrounds into its
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