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In 2022 Why Do We Still Show Such Loyalty To Royalty?

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“Some People Are Gaysian – Get Over It!”

🛑 EXCLUSIVE: Criminalising homelessness is a cruel use of the law

🛑 EXCLUSIVE: The Police, Protests, and Me

The Nationality and Borders Bill evokes a chilling history for the UK’s East And South-East Asian Communities

The Nationality and Borders Bill: Imperial nostalgia, fascist resurgence and social control

When Your Life Is Worth Less: The British Attack on Human Rights

⚠️ Eight unprecedented and undemocratic bills that the Tories are trying to pass this year

The Nationality and Borders Bill raises uncomfortable questions about our “British” Identity

Joint letter from 100 Civil Society Figures Opposing the Nationality and Borders Bill

🛑 Chasing James Baldwin in Switzerland

🛑 Black British histories didn’t start in 1948

🛑 Poetic Resistance to the language of “Civilised” Citizenship

Stuart Hall and Black British photography | Part 2

Stuart Hall and Black British photography | Part 1

🛑 The War in Ukraine and the Ugly Face of Racism

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🛑 The Colour of Madness: ‘The mental health system is not designed with us in mind’

🛑 The Student to Activist Pipeline and Its Flaws

🛑 Labour’s local election lies and the sham of democracy

🛑 The Tory’s Economic Model Kills the Most Vulnerable

🛑 Bend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism

🛑 Ramadan in Yemen

🛑 Trojan Horse: A failure of British journalism. And that includes The Observer

🛑 What will they do with state power?

🛑 Child Q’s Case is a Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power. Both Racism and Child Abuse Need to be Addressed

🛑 Is It Even A Protest If Your Oppressor Gave You Permission?

🛑 Ten key facts that undermine the Sewell report’s conclusions and highlight why the Government is wrong on race

🛑 Letter from an IPP Prisoner

🛑 An Uncertain Life - IPP Poetry

🛑 The NHS is still failing Black women – and the pandemic hasn’t helped

🛑 Liz Truss supports Britons to go and fight for Ukraine – while removing citizenship of others

🛑 UK prisoners serving inhumane indefinite sentences may have lost appeals for their freedom because non-existent offences had been wrongly included in their files”

🛑 Why I’m Fundraising For A Tank for #Ukraine At My Local Mosque

🛑 Amidst Russian-Ukraine War, Nigerians try to breathe

🛑 The Governments response to the roundly discredited Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report Chaired by Dr Tony Sewell has finally been published

I Wore a Raspberry Beret

Winning back rights for workers is an international campaign

Are Britain and America’s Drug Laws Racist? #MDClassics

Light skin, the antidote to everything wrong with blackness

I Salute Doreen Lawrence

You cannot mention Grime and not mention Blackness, you cannot mention the art form and erase the people

Comment is white: far-right extremism’s subversion of the British media

What are Respectability Politics, and Why do We Subscribe to Them?

Why British Historians must be de-colonised

Why Do We Show Such Loyalty To Royalty?

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🛑An open letter on the reporting of Ukraine: Do not let people of colour be a casualty of war

🛑 Who will confront the New Labour threat?

🛑 Inside the strikes: When ‘being realistic’ is social value reduced to pure economics

A Valentine Letter to Rt Hon Sir Keir Rodney Starmer MP

Theatre Review | Queens of Sheba: If you know, you know

Report Racism - Gypsy, Roma, Traveller

Stand against harsh new laws for roadside camps

Media that Moves report

✍️ SIGN & SHARE PETITION: ABOLISH IPP Sentences

✍️ DIGITAL ACTION: Nationality and Borders Bill

JOINT STATEMENT: Faith and civil society groups publish joint statement warning against the un-British and sinister Nationality and Borders Bill

SIGN & SHARE PETITION: Remove Clause 9 from the Nationality and Borders Bill

Institutional Support: ⚡️ "Complicit No More"

⚡️ “'Charlotte Didn't Have to Die Alone in Prison' It's time to release prisoners sentenced for public protection and get #JusticeForIPPs”

⚡️ “Fightback: Why and how we resist"

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2015: Towards a structural view of cultural appropriation

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🛑 Britain is Just as Culpable as Saudi Arabia for the War in Yemen

🛑 Islamophobia Is Having A Moment. But I Have Questions…

🛑 Anti-racism work that doesn’t battle misogyny, and specifically misogynoir is not doing its job

🛑 In defence of ‘Uncle Tom’ and ‘coconut’

🛑 A sharp hairline is a symbol of status and self-worth

🛑 ‘Mrs Bibi Syndrome’, the medical stereotype undermining elderly Asian women

🛑 The museum will not be decolonised

🛑 Dr. Nafeez Ahmed’s guide to the eight unprecedented and undemocratic bills that the Tories are trying to pass this year

🛑 The Columnist Class, Egos and Accountability

🛑 Martin Luther King: a man can be killot an idea

⚡️ “IPP = No Right of Appeal, Prison for Life, Recall to Prison at the Drop of a Hat

Campaign to free Cardiff man jailed seventeen years ago for stealing a mobile phone

My son was jailed as a teenager for stealing a mobile phone… SEVEN YEARS later he still doesn't have a release date, says worried mother who fears 'indeterminate' tariff could kill him

Prisoner cuts ear off with razor blade in protest at indefinite sentence for 'road rage'

Law Gazette | Left hanging

🛑 Sarah Reed’s death is a call to end our complacency

🛑Martin Luther King: a man can be killed, but not an idea The Nationality and Borders Bil

🛑 Media Diversified View: The Colston Four acquittal raises questions of whose activism gets to be celebrated

🇬🇧 Government responded to 315k “Remove Clause 9 from the Nationality and Borders Bill” petition

🇬🇧 Joint letter from 100 Civil Society Figures Opposing the Nationality and Borders Bill

Exclusive: leading UK charity heads condemn the Nationality and Borders Bill as “overtly racist”

🛑 Priti Patel is smashing glass ceilings not windows

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For the Culture: Reflections on Black & Brown Activism

On the Nationality and Borders Bill and the UK (White) Left

🚨 Call for Action: Immediate Parliamentary Debate on 300,000 signature parliamentary petition on draconian #NationalityAndBordersBill

Britain’s homelessness crisis shames us all

EMAIL YOUR MP: the Nationality and Borders Bill will criminalise refugees, erode the meagre rights of those subject to immigration control and sow further division into UK society

⚡️ “Why does the UK government hate Human Rights?”

🎵 BBC Focus on Africa Nationality and Borders Bill interview with Samantha Asumadu

🛑 When Your Life Is Worth Less: The British Attack on Human Rights

‘The most racist legislation in my lifetime’: Protest at Nationality and Borders Bill reaches Downing Street

⚡️ “There is a growing movement against the Nationality and Borders Bill and you can be a part of it too”

Why we need to join forces to oppose the Nationality and Borders Bill

🛑 The Nationality and Borders Bill evokes a chilling history for the UK’s East And South-East Asian Communities

⚡️ “The Psychological Effect of the Nationality and Borders Bill”

🛑 The Nationality and Borders Bill: Imperial nostalgia, fascist resurgence and social control

DEMAND YOUR MP SUPPORTS THE Nationality and Borders Bill AMENDMENT THAT STOPS GOVERNMENT GAINING POWERS TO STRIP CITIZENSHIP

Spread the word From scripts to social media graphics, BiD have created all the templates you need to spread the word

Get clued up Check out BID's library of resources on the bill.

Don't sleep on the toxic Nationality & Borders Bill. Here is how you can help BiD #RingTheAlarm.

⚡️ “Birthright Citizenship: Making people stateless is a human rights abuse, we must oppose

South Asia Solidarity Group unequivocally condemns the UK government’s new proposed Nationality and Borders Bill

Anger boils as UK Parliament endorses ‘obscene’ nationality bill

⚡️ “Why is the media silent on the Nationality and Borders Bill?”

UK Parliamentary Bills: Timeline for Nationality and Borders Bill

Nationality and Borders Bill: Third Reading: Vote held on 8 December 2021 at 16:00

⚡️"Are us people of colour conditional Brits now?"

🛑 There is a War on Black People in Britain

⚡️Explained: The Consequences of Priti Patel's Nationality and Borders Bill

Data Analysis: Find out how many people in your area have signed the petition opposing Clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill

⚡️Understanding the Nationality and Borders Bill

Priti Patel's Borders Bill will create a second-tier category of British citizenship

⚡️Nationality and Borders Bill: How many people could Priti Patel actually deport?

Citizenship is not a ‘privilege’ – the Borders Bill clause is a threat to ethnic minority Britons

Data Analysis: British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans

🛑 The revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship sets a worrying precedent for the children of immigrants

The police bill is not about law and order – it's about state control

Policing bill, Serious Violence Reduction Orders and guilt by association

Policing in the Brexit State – Back to the 1980s