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This week saw the Labour leadership battle wake up from its politcal stupor: on Monday there was the Welfare Bill vote that revealed in an equally vivid and graceless fashion the battle within the Labour Party; whether former PM Tony Blair's intervention on Tuesday at a Progress seminar hekped or hindered is yet to be seen; and then on Wednesday the polling bombshell that the candidate Jeremy Corbyn who got on the ballot with minutes to spare was in the lead on 1st and 2nd prefence votes.

Cliche - yes, but a week's a long time in politics...

Policing by consent is the most cherished principle that informs and gives credence to our consent for the police to take whatever lawful action is necessary to maintain the Queens peace.

First articulated by the father of modern policing Sir John Peel over a hundred years ago, this important maxim was accompanied by another equally important ethic, and that is, the public are the police and the police are the public.

Combined, these two cornerstones' of ethical policing are the bedrock on which the whole edifice of British policing rests.

Football. The beautiful game is often marred with the toxic stench of racism, the rise of which is evident in the extent to which we see resurgent racial attacks in the game across the world.

Just this morning, news reports revealed the punishment for four Chelsea fans accused of refusing to allow a black man on to the Paris Metro – each has been banned from attending football matches for up to five years.

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Forty percent of Londoner’s are Black, Asian or part of the real global ethnic majority - people of colour. In a city that thrives on its diversity in terms of its people, economy and culture, it's absolutely vital that the rapid transformation we see on our streets is more rapidly translated into fairer representation in civil society, public administration and local government.

As leader of this country will you advance an agenda that will dismantle structural racism in this country?”

This was the question posed to former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, two democratic candidates for the 2016 US presidential election, this past weekend at Netroots Nation, the country’s largest convention for progressive activists.

One of the most important political events in Labour London’s political calendar is set to take place in the heart of one of London’s most diverse communities Lambeth, this weekend.

Operation Black Vote in partnership with the youth leadership project Patchwork is set to host Labour Mayoral candidates in the capital's first Black and ethnic minority hustings.

All the candidates are confirmed for this important event and are hoping to run as Labour's official candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral elections.

The devil is always in the detail, but we must be positive about one particularly aspect in announcement heralded yesterday by the Prime Minister David Cameron in his briefing to journalist about how to tackle extremism.

According to Radio 4’s leading political correspondent Chris Mason, the PM made clear that as part of the Governments plan to confront extremism, the senior civil servant Louise Casey will lead a review into how “young people from BME communities can be given more opportunities, and a chance to shape the future of our country”.

The Klu Klux Klan, one the most notorious white supremacist groups in the US, held a rally in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday afternoon.

The Loyal White Knights, proclaimed to be the largest segment of what remains of the Klu Klux Klan, stood in protest of the removal of the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds in South Carolina. The group claimed that in taking down the flag, their heritage was being taken away from them.