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I FELT the need to reply to Mervyn Gibson’s article, ‘Fascists are a total anathema to the unionist community’. I’m not going to comment on his main point regarding fascism/racism and loyalism (other than to make the obvious point that it’s taken him more than two weeks since the incidents …

A Scottish postman was not racially discriminated against by an English colleague who told him “I can’t understand you” –  because he was just talking too fast, an employment tribunal has ruled. Pete McCalam accused Royal Mail manager Alan Wiggs of being a “little bit racist” because he repeatedly told …

‘I want to spend the rest of my career doing nothing but uplifting our communities’ Awkwafina has finally addressed longstanding criticism for her employment of a “blaccent”, but people aren’t satisfied with her explanation. Awkwafina, real name Nora Lum, has often come under fire for her appropriation of black vernacular, …

ONE year since a devastating leaked report exposed sabotage of Labour’s 2017 election campaign, the party is pulling out all the stops to hold Hartlepool. MPs who spent five years sniping at Jeremy Corbyn rounded furiously on the CWU union last week simply for commissioning a poll indicating Labour is …

Lucy Bell, former head of the First Nations Department and Repatriation Program at the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives, seen here in Victoria on June 5, 2019. DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mail The Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives has hired a third-party investigator and brought in a diversity …

Published Aug 6, 2020 at 12:26 pm (Updated Aug 6, 2020 at 4:14 pm) Black Lives Matter Bermuda organisers Dynera Bean, left, and Jasmine Brangman (File photograph by Jonathan Bell) Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police (File photograph …

POSTAL workers in Merseyside walked out on a wildcat strike for a second day today after a manager allegedly made a racist comment to a Muslim colleague. Around 50 Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) members at Bootle and Seaforth delivery office walked off the job and picketed outside their depot in protest …

Increasingly, people on the right seem to think their sharpest weapon against liberals is to slander them with incongruous slurs that they are “too PC”, that they are “snowflakes” or even “overzealously woke”. You know your arguments are running dry when you try to insult people by claiming they’re too …

The Royal Mint, a government-owned mint that produces currency coins for the United Kingdom, has dropped its plans to commemorate author Enid Blyton by issuing a coin, due to her “racist, sexist and homophobic” views, The Independent reported on Tuesday. The Royal Mint had planned to engrave Blyton’s face on …