First there was a call for a ban on the Burka, now some are calling for a ban on cousin marriages. One could understand if at this point Asian communities, especially Pakistanis are feeling demonized. The latest furore on cousin marriages is largely the result of last night’s Dispatches programme on Channel 4, which turned [...]

In her paper entitled: White Privilege Male Privilege, Peggy Mc Intosh reflects on the daily effect of white privileges in her day to day life. Number 46 on her list is: “I can choose blemish cover or bandages in ‘flesh’ colour and have them more or less match my skin.” Mc Intosh seeks to explain [...]

The writing is on the wall. We are a nation who is getting fatter. Our children are getting fatter, and globally obesity has become a worldwide epidemic. The Social Trends Report 2010 compiled by the Office for National Statistics and released last week, reveals that in 2008 almost a quarter of the adult population in [...]

I’m glad that following a recent change in the law that an eBay scammer who bid on his own items has been prosecuted – but what about the others? Barratt, 39, from County Durham, who ran a minibus hire firm engaged in the practice of “shill bidding” or bidding on your own items in order [...]

I was surprised by the conduct of Cllr Shirley Brown who called a fellow Asian Conservative councillor a “coconut” at a heated Bristol City Council debate in 2009; but even more bemused at her conviction for racial harassment. The Lib Dem councillor, who has given years of service championing the cause for equality and diversity [...]

Barely a week after figures reveal that black people are seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people, the Met Police release figures suggesting that black communities commit more crimes. It is clear that the Met Police have an agenda that involves the criminalisation of black and minority ethnic communities. In [...]

The £10.5bn worth of public sector cuts announced this week has undoubtedly left many individuals and organisations with a bitter taste in their mouth. But no group has been more badly let down and betrayed by the new government than our young people. The most recent figures released by the Department for Children Schools and [...]

I didn’t vote Conservative at the General Election and my political views are more aligned to Lib-Dem/Labour; but Prime Minister David Cameron has just risen in my estimation by refusing to engage in slurs against President Obama over his criticism of BP. President Obama has my sympathies – I felt he had been handling the [...]

It does not surprise me to learn that according to a new study, people who are paid to lose weight lose more than those on traditional diets. I’m sure that cash incentives can persuade people to do just about anything. But yesterday, as Prime Minister David Cameron spelt out the scale of Britain’s debt – [...]

The pictures of emaciated rapper 50 cent, who has recently lost 54 pounds, are pitiful. He looks ill and gaunt and reminds me why size zero men are a real turn-off. Okay, so he lost the weight for his latest film, Things Fall Apart, and okay it’s a story about a football player who develops [...]