I like Dominic Grieve - he’s a nice guy. In fact I’ve seen him at so many Asian events that you almost forget he’s a Tory MP. In a speech today he will say: Mr Grieve will refer to “a decade of courting self-appointed heads of minority groups and pandering to special interest...

Thanks to Sunder for highlighting this. An article in the Daily Mail says: However although the figures from the Government’s Office for National Statistics show an increase in numbers of foreign born people they still fail to record the true impact of immigration because they record their chi...

The above political cartoon appeared in the New York Post last Wednesday. The cartoon plays off of the large amount of publicity being given to the incident in which a pet chimpanzee attacked and nearly killed a friend of his owner before being shot to death by police in order to make a point about ...

According to the Guardian, there’s a “storm brewing” over a play at the Royal Court. It has incestuous, pig-breeding, drunken Irishmen, snooty Frenchmen, farcical Jewish anarchists and the animated presence of a mad mullah ranting about how women must be subservient to men. It remi...

On Harry’s Place, it seems finding intelligent writing requires scraping a barrel. Yesterday I wrote for an article for CIF comparing different kinds of racial insults that are used to dehumanise people. Rather than understand what the article is getting at, which he always fails to do, Neil D...

This is the response of the Quilliam Foundation to the news that Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who takes ownership of the “controversial” film Fitna has been barred from entry to the UK to attend a screening of the film: The Quilliam Foundation has announced its opposition to the decision ...

A senior British Foreign and Commonwealth Office diplomat has been arrested and is on bail after shouting about the “fucking Jews” at a crowded gym in London. More in the Times: News reports today said that Rowan Laxton, 47, allegedly shouted “f***ing Israelis, f***ing Jews” ...

This is a guest post by Sarah Tonight, I am wondering whether the BBC gives more importance to Britain’s prime ministers, or to tennis players. Why, you might well ask, and what on Earth does that question have to do with disability? Well, I shouldn’t need to tell any of you that Carol Thatcher,...

So the BBC has apologised for editing out part of what a striking worker said about foreign workers, which made him sound racist. The full quote was: These Portuguese and Eyeties – we can’t work alongside of them: we’re segregated from them. They’re coming in in full companies. B...

Over at the American magazine The Atlantic, blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates (who has become a must-read) offers an intriguing argument in favour of tokenism. Reflecting on the win of Steele as the first black chair of the Republican party, he says: But I maintain that you have to begin somewhere. Conservat...