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Government's 'racist' billboard vans mocked by right and left 9 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
Politicians and campaigners have united to attack a controversial mobile advertising campaign against migrants launched by the British government. They have accused the ruling administration of stirri...
Making campaigner Doreen Lawrence a political 'saint' is folly 5 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
In the past few days, I have had many people from the Global African Diaspora, women especially, express their delight that ‘Doreen is now the Right Honourable Baroness Lawrence’ and that ‘there is on...
Odd bedfellows: Egypt's once hated military and street protestors 12 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
When I visited Tahir Square last year, days after Mohammed Morsi had become Egypt's first democratically elected president, graffiti everywhere denounced the military which had taken power after the o...
Palestinians blighted by 'water apartheid' in the West Bank 1 Jul 2013 | 02:38 am
In Israeli households, housewives let their shower water run for minutes on end. Fountains run continuously on their streets and there’s even an annual water fight every year by Rabin Square in Tel Av...
Police 'spied on me 24/7 to dig for dirt' 26 Jun 2013 | 09:03 pm
There has rightly been shock and horror expressed from the British prime minister downwards following revelations that undercover police spied on the family of murdered Black teenager Stephen Lawrence...
Is this the end of the newspaper blog? 24 Jun 2013 | 01:55 am
A number of its blogs are being cut at the New York Times and it is reviewing the future of many more. The Green blog, Media Decoder and The Choice (about getting into and paying for university) have ...
Social media plays crucial role in Brazil's mass protests 24 Jun 2013 | 12:13 am
Demonstrations that started over a week ago with a public call to lower bus fares in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, have reverberated far and wide on the internet. During the protests, and as ...
'Mail National Health Service bashing hits new low' 23 Jun 2013 | 11:02 pm
If anyone doubted the lengths the Daily Mail newspaper will go to discredit Britain’s public health service, recent stories should have banished thoughts to the contrary. The paper’s legendary foul m...
Anonymous Facebook user dishes dirt on Zimbabwe politics 20 Jun 2013 | 03:48 am
A new Facebook phenomenon has Zimbabwe talking as elections approach. An anonymous character calling himself Baba Jukwa (BJ) has become a major focal point as Zimbabweans hungry for political intrigue...
Would you have helped Nigella Lawson? 20 Jun 2013 | 02:45 am
Everyone's been pretty shocked by the photos of Charles Saatchi's assault on Nigella Lawson for which he has now received a police caution. Just out of interest, I looked up the criteria for giving a...
