Fancy that! The pressure is on for Trevor Phillips to get the heave-ho as head of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). When he was in charge of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) I never heard of him doing squat for the UK Chinese community, although I’m sure he liked the food. […]
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Having chased out 100 Romanians from Belfast, racist loyalists in Northern Ireland have set their sights on Anna Lo, the United Kingdom’s first Chinese-born politician elected to national Parliament, and the sole ethnic minority member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. According to a report in the Belfast Telegraph, police have warned her that she is
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Okay! The London reviews for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — The Musical are now in and the suspense is killing me like a pair of six-inch stilettoes stabbed into my cranium. Has anyone noticed the misogyny? Does anyone care that east asians are dissed in a way that would have the blogosphere yelling “homophobia”
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The stage musical version of The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert opened this month in London’s West End. I saw the original film when it opened at the 1994 Edinburgh Film Festival. I’d been looking forward to it as I’d always warmed to the men and women I’d met in the gay community
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Oil industry strikes are spreading across Scotland and northern England as British refinery workers protest over use of “foreign workers” to the exclusion of locals. Angry workers at Lindsey and Conoco Phillips refineries in North Lincolnshire are striking over a new contract awarded to an Italian contractor who is only using Italians. The big question
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The other Tuesday I’m doing the washing up to Radio 4’s “Word of Mouth”, presented by Mike Rosen, when I nearly drop the antique Woolworth’s teamug I’m scraping clean. Today’s subject being schoolyard rhymes, an “expert” (white, male, natch) has just described in avuncular fashion how the kids have a jolly rhyme to accompany a
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