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5 hours ago
Tory party co-chairman adds voice to row over Rochdale grooming case, saying she believes race played role in crimeThe Conservative party co-chairman has hit out at the small minority of Pakistani men who see white girls as "fair game".In comments that follow the Rochdale grooming case, Lady Warsi s[...]
8 hours ago
Analysis of the Scottish council election results shows few black and minority ethnic people in city hall - just 17 out of 1,223 councillors, and only two parties promise actionSo if Scottish councils are getting less male and stale, how are they doing on the pale? Not very well at all is the answer[...]
11 hours ago
A demi-monde that's all but vanishedThere were three of us: me, Lorenzo Marioni, and a leather-jacketed vicar whose name now escapes me. We were sitting around one of the Formica tables in the New Piccadilly, the last surviving Italian caff on Denman Street – a place run by Lorenzo's family since [...]
14 hours ago
...upcoming generations. They'll have to deal with non-race-based issues such as the federal deficit and the social services needed for an aging population. Graying America Thursday's Census Bureau numbers show a continuing...
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1 day ago
I object to same-sex marriage because I believe in social pluralism, not fancy-free individualismI will be the first to accept that homosexual people have suffered discrimination and sometimes worse through the decades and that the churches have, at times, been complicit in this. There is much penan[...]
2 days ago
Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander General Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the country's devastating 1992-95 war.
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Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander General Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the country's devastating 1992-95 war.
www.thisislondon.co.uk via Zibb.com News Sorry Nick Clegg – social mobility and austerity just don't mix | Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
2 days ago
To claim social mobility as your guiding principle yet ignore income inequality is not serious policy-makingWhen Nick Clegg announced a drive for social mobility at the weekend, based on the pupil premium for children on free school meals, he was articulating a goal supported across the political sp[...]
4 days ago
Some payments were based on incorrect assessments and some were paid at wrong rate, National Audit Office findsThe error-strewn accounts of the organisation in charge of enforcing child support payments have not been fully signed off by a government spending watchdog.Some payments at the Child Maint[...]
4 days ago
Scotland plans minimum alcohol priceSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Minimum alcohol price in Scotland to be set at 50p a unit
• NHS community care struggling to cope with demand, survey shows
• Treasury failed to test fairness of spending c[...]
• NHS community care struggling to cope with demand, survey shows
• Treasury failed to test fairness of spending c[...]
4 days ago
To coincide with the launch of the annual campaign highlighting fostering, Robert Tapsfield says foster care can transform children's livesGiven the government's overwhelming focus on adoption in England in recent months and the widespread coverage the issue has received in the media, the public cou[...]
4 days ago
Children held in small, stuffy rooms at airport for hours, often sharing space with adults they are not related to, watchdog findsThe UK Border Agency is detaining children in "degrading and disgraceful" conditions at Heathrow, according to an official watchdog.The Heathrow independent monitoring bo[...]
5 days ago
Britain's greatest challenge now is the transition to a snob-free societyOn Thursday, the education secretary, Michael Gove, eloquently described how much of this nation's talents and capabilities are strangled at birth by the power of the old school tie. "Those who were born poor are more likely to[...]
5 days ago
As an actor in Lost, he was watched worldwide. As a child, he was a 'black Oliver Twist', farmed out for fostering to a white family. Now Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is making a film of his extraordinary life storyThe name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it's wo[...]
5 days ago
Fifty years after the National Autistic Society was set up, the problems of getting a diagnosis are leaving parents frustrated and youngsters isolatedFirst they blamed the child, then the parents, then even the doctors. A few later pointed to modern life: computer games or too much television. But a[...]
5 days ago
They work longer hours, face economic insecurity and suffer worse health. Now their feckless ways are lampooned in the media. A controversial new book argues that men increasingly face a prejudice that dare not speak its nameYou might not have realised it, but men are being oppressed. In many walks [...]
6 days ago
However misguided, good intentions may have fed a reluctance to respond properly to scandals in both Rochdale and IrelandI have been brooding on two cover-ups of the sexual abuse of children that have been uncovered this week. The first is the reluctance of the English secular authorities to prosecu[...]
6 days ago
The great Victorian journalist William T Stead, who campaigned vigorously against child prostitution, must be turning in his grave. He stuck his neck out and bought a little girl for £5 (she was carefully looked after by someone else), just to show how easy it was to procure children for sex.&[...]
6 days ago
We are moving towards a world where everything is up for sale, from standing in line to the right to pollute – and that's bad for all of us, says Michael Sandel in this extract from his new book, What Money Can't BuyNobody likes to queue. It's long been known that, in fancy restaura[...]
1 week ago
UK's poorest face tightest squeezeSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• UK's poorest face tightest squeeze
• £1.4bn regional growth fund not value for money, says finance watchdog
• NHS sleeping pill spend leaps to £50m
• Starkey makes '[...]
• £1.4bn regional growth fund not value for money, says finance watchdog
• NHS sleeping pill spend leaps to £50m
• Starkey makes '[...]
1 week ago
Make it easier for state governments to cut enrollment in Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, and eliminate Social Services Block Grants, which fund programs such as Meals on Wheels. • Make it harder for illegal immigrants to claim a child ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune via Google News 1 week ago
Historian calls on schools to teach English history to ethnic minorities to make them 'English citizens and English men'David Starkey has risked fresh criticism for describing a largely Pakistani gang jailed for sexually exploiting young girls as "acting within their cultural norms".Speaking at a co[...]
1 week ago
Historian calls on schools to teach English history to ethnic minorities to make them 'English citizens and English men'
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 1 week ago
From Russia, to India and Kenya, campaigners welcomed US President Barack Obama's support for same-sex marriagePresident Barack Obama's support for same-sex marriage in the US has been hailed by campaigners as a significant boost for gay rights around the world – but they warned there was much wo[...]
1 week ago
The Conservatives are doomed to rely on endless coalitions unless they attract black and Asian voters, party chairman Sayeeda Warsi said today.
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1 week ago
The pervasive use of racial profiling as a policing tactic is an example of a social justice issue that is in need of reform. According to the World English Dictionary, racial profiling is defined as, an assumption of criminality among ethnic groups: the alleged policy of some police to attribute cr[...]
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