Hideously diverse Britain: does racism equal racist?
After a student who sent racist tweets to Stan Collymore avoided jail, the judge said he wasn't inherently racist. Really?Be careful, my journalism tutor would say. Because someone committed a crime doesn't necessarily mean you should blithely label th...
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The latest threat to security at No 10 – a protest letter and a bit of sticky tape• So many unfortunate repercussions from the summer riots, and one is that now, and probably for the foreseeable future, the Met is skittish about public order events...
Hideously diverse Britain: why so few black football managers?
America has found a way to give minority coaches a leg-up. Perhaps we should try it tooTea-time in a north London cafe and I'm learning things. The Rooney rule applies to football, not British but American, and it has nothing to do with the hulk who pl...
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People of Liverpool, the Mail is with you. And here's one reason why• A terrible thing, cynicism. Debilitating, corrosive. And so we noted with good faith the Mail's statement on Wednesday about the people of Liverpool and their fight for justice ove...
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Suspended in Zurich; feted in his homeland. He's all right, Jack, and no mistake• With sponsors threatening to bail out and senior figures teetering on the edge of disgrace, it may look as if Sepp Blatter's Fifa is in crisis. But it's all in the eye ...
The story of Nile Ranger proves that old acquaintances are sometimes best forgotten
The story of Nile Ranger proves that old acquaintances are sometimes best forgotten'You got the get out of the ghetto blues," sang Gil Scott Heron. And there is a lot of that about; people doing all sorts of things to get out from a down-at-heel esta...
Hugh Muir’s Diary
Note to ministers. The thing with wheels. That's a bicycle. The red thing. That's a bus• They start with the best of intentions, and maybe everything will be different. But it's early days, and old habits die hard. We are doing away with the governme...
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