Acas acting like East Germany, says employee accused of racism for sharing equality posts
Following an investigation, the complaint was not upheld in late October after Acas ruled there was “no substantial evidence” that Mr Corby posed a risk to ethnic…
Scotland’s first black professor caught up in racism row with fellow scholars
Scotland’s first black professor has rejected calls to quit a slavery review after he accused fellow academics of being part of a “racist gang”. Sir Geoff Palmer,…
Slavery-linked Church of England statues can be ‘bar to faith and worship’
Church of England statues linked to slavery can “present a bar to faith and worship”, the chairman of its race commission has said. Lord Boateng was appointed…
Yet again, Cambridge’s ‘anti-racist’ professor is guilty of double standards
A few days ago, to the detriment of my undergraduate studies, I did something that Cambridge students ought never do — I wrote an article for Varsity,…
Willard White interview: ‘I thought no real man would go on stage and sing’
Nature certainly had fun creating Willard White’s voice box. A combination of treacle and granite, its sweet and hard sonorities cannot be muffled even by Zoom. It’s…
King’s College drops Rhodes professorship after ‘slavery’ row
A history professorship named after Cecil Rhodes has been axed by a top university following a row over its links to racism and slavery. King’s College London…
Religious leaders must reclaim their role in world politics
My grandfather, Nelson Mandela, fought a repressive apartheid system. It was, for the most part, a political struggle. But Desmond Tutu proved to him that another, often…
How the ‘Colston four’ enlisted Banksy and Left-wing scholars to seal monumental victory
When the statue of Edward Colston was ripped from its plinth and hurled into Bristol Harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020, many of…
Trouble in Mind, National’s Dorfman Theatre, review: a timely – yet uneven – satire of racism in theatre
In the turbulent aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that subsequently erupted, multiple sectors of society have had to take…
Cambridge students’ union in ‘witch hunt’ over racism classes leak
Students’ union officials at a Cambridge University college have launched a “witch hunt” for the leakers of mandatory race classes for freshers, in a bid to have…
Warn public before they watch films depicting blacked-up actors such as Laurence Olivier, says official censor
Films in which actors black up such as Laurence Olivier in Othello should carry a ratings warning, says the official censor. Prospective audiences will be able to…
BBC axes Michael Vaughan from Ashes coverage as clarity demanded over allegations
But BT, which had planned to take Fox’s commentary feed due to coronavirus and travel restrictions, subsequently announced: “The recent report presented to UK Parliament uncovering institutional…
It’s time to admit it – our health service has a diversity problem
At the beginning of the pandemic, I tweeted that from the statistics, men were more likely to die of Covid than women. Lifestyle factors such as smoking…
Britain’s conversations about racism have become deeply counter-productive
On Question Time last week, a member of the audience asked the panel about the racism scandal engulfing Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Fiona Bruce, in the chair,…