Minister fears Covid infections in BAME community amid reluctance to take vaccine
Britain’s vaccine minister has warned that Covid-19 could continue to spread around the BAME community unless efforts are made to increase uptake of the jab among non-white groups. Speaking on Monday, Nadhim Zahawi More...
UK NHS warns fake news causing BAME people to reject Covid-19 vaccine
An anti-disinformation campaign by the National Health Service is warning that language and cultural barriers are allowing fake news to cause black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals to reject the Covid-19 More...
Leader of Ealing Council Labour group ‘used bully pulpit’ to shut down pro-Corbyn motion – and shouting at BAME member to ‘shut up’ minutes after talk on structural racism
Ealing Labour group leader Steve Donnelly, in an image from his Twitter feed The leader of Ealing Council’s majority Labour group used a ‘bully pulpit’ to block discussion of a motion of support More...
Quality vs quota? Outcry as Mayor Sadiq Khan tells London police that 40% of new hires must be BAME
London’s top cop has been told that 40 percent of new recruits must be from ethnic minority backgrounds as the city’s government looks to tackle allegations of racism and discrimination. The UK’s biggest More...
No solutions, no justice: Covid-19 and BAME communities
An International Women’s Day event hosted by Apsana Begum MP in Parliament, 2020. Photo: Gabriela Salva This month’s Government U-turn on funding free school meals over the summer was a welcome victory More...
Labour MP Rosie Duffield says she could refuse to condemn racist abuse towards BAME activist for disagreeing with her policies
Labour MP Rosie Duffield has suggested that she could refuse to condemn racist abuse towards a BAME Labour activist in future after they disagreed with her policy suggestions about strengthening laws on the sale More...
BAME and migrant workers to argue in court that lower pay for outsourced staff is ‘institutional racism’
BAME and migrant security guards working at St George’s University of London medical school are to argue in court that outsourcing them on worse pay than university-employed staff is race discrimmination breaching More...
Coronavirus: death rate higher if you’re poor and BAME
The report into disproportionate BAME deaths from Covid-19 confirms that structural racism is at the heart of the problem, writes Lucy Nichols Counterfire Daily More...
Capitalism is racist: COVID-19 and BAME deaths
The official coronavirus death toll currently sits at over 39,000. But the real figure could be far more. This is an undeniable tragedy, causing enormous grief for families across the country. However, like most More...
In the US and UK, racism is killing BAME people
I hesitated to write about George Floyd, because in reality it’s unlikely the people who most need to understand this message will take it in. That police officer who killed him in Minneapolis isn’t just one More...
