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How One Community Organisation is Tackling the Problem of Refugee Integration in Britain

January 24, 2019 | by Sarah Mills | 3 Comments

As concern mounts over issues of community segregation, the Afghan and Central Asian Association seeks to promote unity through its integration programmes. Read more

Olivia DeLaurentis on This Gets Ruff: “I’ve Always Loved Dark Comedy”

January 21, 2019 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Olivia DeLaurentis, 22-year-old writer, actor and director, is interviewed by Madelaine Hanson for Conatus News about her new film This Gets Ruff. Read more

Fake News, Hate Crimes and Phony Phobias: the Dilution of Language

January 14, 2019 | by Dan Fisher | 1 Comments

Conflating terms and diluting language to turn prejudice or even genuine criticism into phobia does a disservice to victims and critics alike. Read more

Green Party Verita Report: Safeguarding Failures in Challenor Case

January 11, 2019 | by Dan Fisher | 11 Comments

Yesterday, Verita released a report on their investigation into how David Challenor was allowed to fulfil the role of an election agent for the Green Party whilst facing 22 serious charges including rape and sexual assault of a child. Aimee Challenor, who has been a national spokesperson on LGBTIQA+ issues and a member of the executive […] Read more

Religious Exemptions Fuel Bigotry – Ban Non-Stun Slaughter

January 10, 2019 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

One law for all is the only sustainable way to beat bigots – Chris Sloggett from the National Secular Society calls for a ban on non-stun slaughter. As the new year opened, a measure preventing the slaughter of animals without pre-stunning came into effect in the Flanders region, which roughly covers the northern half of Belgium. A […] Read more

Plastic, Periods and Poverty – Saving the Environment or Shaming Women?

January 9, 2019 | by Emma Chesworth | 0 Comments

Shaming women into shelling out money for expensive replacements of necessary plastic sanitary products is not the way to protect the environment. As we step into the New Year, talk and thoughts inevitably concentrate on resolutions for the coming 12 months. This year, more than ever, it feels there is a move away from vowing […] Read more

Drag Queen Story Time – Straight-Up Virtue-Signalling

January 8, 2019 | by Jo Bartosch | 3 Comments

If you go down to the library today you could be in for a big surprise. It might have passed you by, but for the past two years councils across the UK have been inviting drag performers to read stories to pre-school age children. To date there have been 50, reaching 8,000 kids. The stated aim […] Read more

Back to the Bad Old Days? Football, Racism and Raheem Sterling

December 17, 2018 | by Ralph Leonard | 0 Comments

Does the abuse hurled at the footballer Raheem Sterling signify a return to the bad old days of Eighties racism? Or does it represent an excuse to slam the working classes as racist and ignorant? The question of racism in football bubbles up to the surface every now and again. Whether Ron Atkinson calling Marcel […] Read more

Criminalising Vulnerable Women Groomed into Prostitution

December 16, 2018 | by Emma Chesworth | 0 Comments

This is the story of ‘Ann’ – a woman who grew up in the care system, groomed and exploited, still marked by permanent records for the sexual crime of prostitution. Ann* is now 43 and a project worker living in Middlesbrough and she knows she is lucky to be where she is now, compared to […] Read more

Deprivation and Integration in Blackburn

December 12, 2018 | by Katie Barker | 2 Comments

In the old mill towns of North West England such as Blackburn, deprivation is making integration more difficult to achieve. How far should we push communities to come together? Is it even possible to force integration along? I was born and raised in Blackburn, Lancashire. Blackburn was the subject of a recent Panorama documentary, ‘White […] Read more

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