I confess I had some sympathy for the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests – the peaceful ones – until I tuned into the evening phone-in on the radio and was subjected to a succession of young white liberals expressing their guilt at ‘white privilege’, their own unconscious racism and microaggressions, and the normally level-headed presenter, terrified of causing offence or committing … [Read on]
Racism is still an issue. I wrote about some of my experiences in The Salisbury Review earlier this year. As a mixed race individual, I’ve been party to my fair share of horrific attacks because of the colour of my skin, and I’m sure many others have been through much worse than I have. And what happened to George Floyd … [Read on]
Notice the impoverished state of the rioters; their skeletal appearance due to lack of food… so poor they have been forced to come in large and expensive cars to prevent their skins, made frail by lack of essential vitamins in thier diet, from bruising… Subscribe to the quarterly print magazine Subscribe to the quarterly digital magazine
Black people living in the United States – just as here at home – are seen for what they should always have been seen; equals; with equal opportunities, equal access to health care, to education, to employment, to the pursuit of leading a comfortable, content life in a modern civilized society. Our individual problems do not reflect the colour of … [Read on]
“As one of my intellectual heroes, the great black American economist Thomas Sowell, has been pointing out for decades, the lives of American blacks were improving in every single measurable way before President Lyndon Johnson decided to create The Great Society by introducing positive discrimination, forming government agencies to deal with “the black problem” and power-hosing billions of dollars at black communities. The result? In … [Read on]
At the end of last month, a Sky News report gave a stark insight into a profound sense of isolation our elders have been hit by during lockdown. A study showed that almost nine out of ten older people say their ‘social contact has reduced significantly during the pandemic’. Another lady told the channel that, still being forced to stay … [Read on]
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