Tell me it is a bad joke, please. The BBC, bastion of ethical values, has invited into its bed the British National Party, an avowedly racist organisation with a fascist pedigree
Read full article...Those who risk everything to try and make a better life need more respect and even if they are eventually deported, must be treated with compassion
Several young men in my circle of friends and family have recently been stopped and searched by the police, just some of the 8,000-plus people so questioned by the Met in 2007-8
There is much kerfuffle over Kate Winslet's outburst this week. She came over all upset that people label her middle-class (because she speaks "nice") when her parents had toiled against all odds. Ergo: she is forever a working-class lass. No she isn't.
England is festooned with flags and bunting; the red cross is worn on chests, heads and bags, even socks. It isn't clear, though, what version of Englishness is being celebrated with St George's Day today. Is it little Englishness or expansive Englishness? Is it an ethnic definition or does it include all who live within this geographical entity?
This time, I'm afraid, it's personal. Nick Hardwick, Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), is not delivering police accountability
The Black and White Minstrels are thankfully long gone
In 2006, Madonna got David, her Malawian adoptee. Now she is back again, this time bidding for Mercy, a four-year-old orphan
Our first black PM, our own Obama? After a century perhaps, I said, and made my son very cross. He, a young barrister, is more upbeat and hopeful than his grumpy mum. It seems new research agrees with him. A study comparing race and opportunity in the US and UK finds many reasons to be cheerful about our situation.
For over half a million schoolchildren in Britain - one in seven - English is a second language. Middle England has reacted with shock to the new figures. Calm down, guys. Languages are a gift, not a disease.
Trust me when I say that most of us British Muslims detest the fanatics who screamed at British soldiers parading in Luton this week even more than outraged non-Muslims do. We want the ground beneath them to open up.
Tory frontbencher Caroline Spelman must return the £10,000 she claimed from the public purse to pay her nanny in the late 1990s, who, apparently, also did secretarial work. There's no reason really to feel sympathy for Spelman. Yet most working mothers will surely feel a weary pang of recognition at her nanny troubles. I know I do: for wonderful women though many nannies, child minders and au pairs are, dealing with them is often more debilitating than the wailing baby.
Ivan Cameron died yesterday, aged only six. He had cerebral palsy and epilepsy and couldn't move much or communicate, except I imagine his parents did know what he wanted and was feeling, picked up on signs and responded
Stamping her well-heeled little feet, Sienna Miller whinges about the "sisterhood", more vicious to her than the universal brotherhood of sweetiepie men
I flopped down on Tuesday night and turned on the telly. Channel 4 was broadcasting Girls and Boys Alone, a series I knew I would detest, as many have
Carol Thatcher says she is baffled that a remark made by her in jest has caused such upset. The top brass at the BBC have decided that her services are no longer required on The One Show, presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley. Thatcher, a roving reporter on the show, described a French tennis player as a “golliwog” while chatting off-air to Chiles and the comedian Jo Brand. They objected, her
apology was hopelessly inadequate and now she is gone.
The future is scary, especially for working women, who are losing jobs faster than men in the recession
Britons of colour were ecstatic on Tuesday. Some let rivers of joy run down their faces, some screamed out as if the hills and oceans needed to know the news, many danced and sang, others just quietly hugged themselves and smiled.
Quieten down, I say to those building up fresh outrage over Prince Charles and his polo buddy, Kolin Dhillon, aka "Sooty"
Beautiful, countrified Richmond is home to many Londoners with huge, showy cars, slowly killing the place they love
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