Reports that the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer intends to appoint Baroness Louise Casey as a minister if he is elected, show his intentions to govern without difference in style or substance. Apparently Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is considering appointing the cross bench peer Dame Louise Casey of Blackstock as a
From the landmark employment tribunal victory of Professor David Miller to the Safety of Rwanda Bill, recent events in the realm of UK law are revealing the political and legal discourses of unaccountable power and control. It’s been happening a while, but the transformation of the image of Kenneth (now Lord) Clarke,
UK police have rejected a proposed definition of Islamophobia, saying it could challenge free speech and undermine counter-terrorism efforts* It has been a week for those decrying the idea of institutional Islamophobia in Britain to inadvertently prove that it exists. First, there was Policy Exchange’s report, “On Islamophobia,” co-authored by the erstwhile
Anna Soubury’s experiences at the hands of the far-right is the lived and normalised experience of the minoritised, says Arzu Merali. Year in year, for a good ten years or more, all sorts of far-right and a motley band of Zionists, congregate to counter the annual Al-Quds Day pro-Palestinian demonstration. They howl
The panel on tackling the police state from the 2018 Bandung of the North conference with Fred Hampton Jr., Arzu Merali, Amal Bentousi, Safa Chebbi, Andre-Yanne Parent, Nordine Saidi, Ibrahim Bechrouri, Redouane Ikil and Said Bouamama. This panel (mainly in French) includes a presentation from IHRC’s Arzu Merali (in English).
From the 2016 IHRC Islamophobia Conference, The Environment of Hate and the Police State. IHRC and SACC held the third annual Islamophobia Conference entitled The Environment of Hate and the Police State on Saturday 3 December in Edinburgh with a parallel conference held in London at the P21 Gallery on Saturday 10 December. Find
Director Sukant Chandan joined IHRC on the 25th August 2016 to discuss his newest documentary ‘Insight to riot’. Insight to Riot is a documentary film that captures the inspiring but also at times very sad and traumatic stories of Black and poor people reacting and responding and navigating a growing racist, oppressive
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