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Paris Brown: sending up a gimmick?
On 8 April 2013 the Evening standard carried a story about Paris Brown who having been appointed as a youth police commissioner by Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Ann Barnes, one week earlier at a cost to the taxpayer of £15,000 a year was found have posted homophobic and racist tweets prior to her appointment. The
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Black, Asian, minority ethnic communities and inner city riots
The following speech was delivered at the “Beyond the Unrest – Community Safety & Civil Society” seminar, promoted by the BME Leadership & Engagement project, on November 29th, 2011. The subject I have been asked to address is vast and it is simply impossible to do justice to it in the time I have been
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Open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron
This open letter was sent to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on August 13th, 2011. Dear Prime Minister, I write as someone whose contribution for more than four decades to the struggle for quality schooling and education for all and for racial equality and social justice is a matter of public record. I write
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Letter to Rt Hon Theresa May MP
The following letter was sent to Rt Hon Theresa May MP (by then, Home Secretary in David Cameron’s Cabinet), on July 4th, 2011. Dear Home Secretary, Call for a People’s Inquiry into Gun and Knife Killings in the African Community I write in relation to the recent upsurge of gun- and knife-enabled killings involving young
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