This summer saw the most widespread race riots in this country in a century

In a new long read, me and @MarleyAMorris outline government strategies to defeat the far right

ippr.org/articles/full-…
The basic process of far right violence involves the mobilisation of people who support or sympathise with far right views to express them in behavioural terms, such as racially motivated hate crimes

There are four points at which the government can intervene:

My dad runs a newsagent in an area where a far right group is suspected to be "demonstrating" tomorrow (according to the local MP). Like virtually every brown and black person in the country, I am feeling anxious

🧵What can the government do? Some thoughts Today, there is really only one question to my mind. It’s a big one for a month-old government. Can it effectively use the institutions of the state to fulfil its first and foremost duty: to protect its citizens from violence?

Some thoughts on the #SewellReport reflecting broadly but using health an example

Throughout the report, the role of racism is 'explained away'. For example, Covid-19 disparities are merely about where you live with, what job you do and how poor you are Ignoring the elephant in the room that shapes each of those factors: racism

That's despite study after study demonstrating how structural and institutional racism determines where you live, what job you do and how poor you are

Building back better in the NHS relies, first and foremost, on a bigger and better looked after workforce

But a new @IPPR survey finds 1 in 4 NHS staff are "more likely" to quit their jobs because of the pandemic theguardian.com/society/2021/m… Most of those 330,000 NHS workers will not actually quit. But that so many are thinking about leaving is bad news for productivity, and bad news for patients

It determines how quickly waiting lists come down, if access to mental health services improves, etc