Boris Johnson has announced a “cross-governmental commission” into racial disparities in education, health and criminal justice. It is the latest of a series of reports into ethnic injustices over recent years. Macpherson report, 1999 What it was: Commissioned by the then home secretary, Jack Straw, four years after Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a gang … Read more
MPs are braced for a rise in Islamophobia as mosques start to reopen across England, after a spike in racism and conspiracy theories about Muslims and coronavirus. Afzal Khan, the vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for British Muslims, received dozens of racist emails during Ramadan and the festival of Eid, and has seen false … Read more
Every business is having to think extremely carefully about how it uses its marketing budget in the coming weeks and months; balancing efforts to promote sales and footfall, with keeping customers safe and well informed. Importantly, communicating to customers over the coming weeks is going to require businesses to strike a very fine balance; and … Read more
Dozens of hospitals are running short of scrubs in the latest problem to hit the NHS over the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic. The shortages are revealed in a survey of UK doctors undertaken by the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK), which found that 61% said that the hospital where they … Read more
The shadow justice secretary, David Lammy, has condemned Boris Johnson’s plan for a government commission to examine racial inequalities as “written on the back of a fag packet”, and intended as a distraction from the government’s lack of action over the issue up to now. Lammy accused the prime minister of primarily seeking a culture … Read more