With the English Defence League gearing up to march in my university town on the 27th of November, I thought I’d look into their ideologies. In the past I’ve dismissed the growing street movement as a bunch of lunatics, but with numbers of the EDL growing as the BNP fall apart, I’ve done some digging to see if [...]
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A world of contradictions: a quick dissection of the English Defence League
Posted in Politics, tagged BNP, British Freedom Party, British National Party, British politics, English Defence League, far right, grass roots, nationalism, patriotism, racism, racists, street movement on November 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The thorny issue of positive discrimination
Posted in Politics, tagged affirmative action, black, British politics, conference, democracy, equality, Liberal Democrats, meritocracy, politics, positive discrimination, racism on September 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At the recent Liberal Democrat conference, the thorny issue of positive discrimination reared its divisive head. The majority of party members voted against using positive discrimination when short listing MP candidates. The reasoning behind the decision was clear- positive discrimination is still discrimination, and discrimination is wrong. Unfortunately, the reality of the issue isn’t that [...]
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