BME children make up over half of the child population in prison (28% are black). This is an increase of 15% over the past decade.
But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
By the end of secondary school, Gypsy, Roma & Traveller pupils are almost three years - & black Caribbean students 11 months - behind their white British counterparts.
But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
BME people with learning disabilities die younger than their white counterparts; there's a 26-year difference between white & BME people with profound & multiple learning disabilities.
But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
Had the white population experienced the same risk of death from #COVID19 as black groups, there would have been an estimated 58,000 additional deaths just between March & May 2020.
But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
In 2019, 90% of Australian nationals were released before spending 28 days in detention compared with 60% of Nigerian nationals & just 40% of Jamaican nationals.
But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
The @RunnymedeTrust report makes it *crystal clear* that institutional & structural/systemic #racism exist alongside individual racism: it is grotesque that the Govt commissioned #racereport & the UK press - as well as Boris Johnson & Priti Patel - all sought downplay its extent.
Most people are aware of influential 78-year-old British-Belizean billionaire 'Lord' Michael Ashcroft - but how much do people know about him, his multiple controversies, & his relentless interference in, & subversion of, Britain's democracy?
If divisive, hateful, unelected far-right extremist GB "News" presenter Nigel Farage appears on this week's @bbcquestiontime (36th time this century), it will be the final nail in the coffin of the @BBC's credibility as an "impartial" "public service" broadcaster.
#bbcqt
Like all sensible people, I want the @BBC to STOP platforming a highly disproportionate amount of unelected partisan billionaire-funded right-wing propagandists, & instead platform more of our tens of thousands of actual experts. 🇬🇧
My open letter to the @BBC now has well over a quarter of a million reads in over 144 countries. @BBCPolitics is controlled by extremists, who disproportionately platform billionaire-employed propagandists from #TuftonSt & the right-wing news media.
#bbcqt
Recent changes in election spending limits, combined with weakened checks & balances, means that more than ever, money is subverting British democracy.
Right-wing parties like Reform UK & the @Conservatives already have the support of the billionaire-owned 'news' media.
Unlike virtually all the billionaire-owned UK newspapers (including the i, Metro, Mail, Times, Sun, & Telegraph) and the billionaire-owned broadcast 'news' media (GB "News" TalkTV/Radio), @BylineTimes has at least tried to inform voters of these changes.
More money will be spent on #GE2024 than on any other election in UK history. The concentration of news media ownership in the hands of a handful of selfish billionaires, combined with the grotesque amount of money donated to the two main parties, undermines democracy.
#Leveson2
Graham King, an Essex businessman who has accumulated a £750 million fortune, partly through taxpayer-funded government contracts, has entered the Sunday Times Filthy Rich List.
Associate Prof, Melanie Griffiths, explains why this is a problem.
King’s business empire includes Clearsprings Ready Homes, which has provided asylum accommodation to the Home Office since 2000, & currently receives £3.5M/day for asylum housing & transportation, even though it's often accused of providing substandard & unsafe accommodation.
The Guardian reported in 2019 that hundreds of asylum seekers were crammed into Clearsprings accommodation which was overrun by cockroaches, rats and mice.
Lawyers described the sites as “depraved” and likely unfit for human habitation.
The day after GB "News" was found to have AGAIN broken @Ofcom broadcast rules, they platform nativist extremist Leo Sherlock, founder of an influential website known for spreading false, misleading or absurd claims about COVID-19, immigration, Muslims & other topics.
Leo Sherlock is little-known here, but his website 'The Liberal IE', which spreads all manner of awful divisive misleading hateful garbage, has over 575K Facebook followers, as well as around 40K subscribers and followers on @X, @YouTube and @instagram .
'Ethnonationalism' - often used interchangeably with 'nativism' - is an extremist ideology strongly associated with the far-right & fascism, which promotes a form of nationalism whereby the nation and nationality are solely determined by ethnicity.
Why doesn't Emma Watson offer a balanced view of Zero Hour contracts?
Because she's a free-market fundamentalist - a Common Sense Society Director, co-founder of Save Our Statues, also of the neoliberal Henry Jackson Society & #TuftonSt's CIVITAS & New Culture Forum...
The main argument in support of Zero Hour contracts is flexibility: if you're asked to work & it's not worth your while, you could turn it down. But employers don’t have to offer you future shifts, & if you turn down work, you may find you’re offered fewer opportunities or none.
While some companies *might* reward hard-working zero-hour contract workers with permanent or fixed contracts, many employers imply this in order to make you work hard & exploit you, and won't offer you a decent contract.
There are many disadvantages of zero-hour contracts...