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The political, and we hope soon the legislative change that multi-media broadcaster Dotun Adebayo demanded back in 2010: That Head teachers could sack BNP members, was challenged in the courts this week. However, the presiding Judge, Clive Heaton QC, who listened and rejected the appeal of the racist thug teacher, Adam Walker who received a life time ban for violent conduct.  Walker argued his life ban should not occur because of his membership of the Far Right group.

Handing down the ruling Judge Heaton QC concluded: "I reject his argument".

Gerard Batten, UKIP’s spokesperson on immigration, has suggested that British Muslims be required to sign a special code of conduct. The document, which Batten co-authored, asks Muslims to sign a declaration rejecting violence and added that passages of the Qur’an should be modified to fit in with modern society.

He claimed some Muslim texts need updating, claiming some say, 

The anti-immigration debate is starting to have a negative impact on the British economy according to a recent study by the National Union of Students. A study of the attitudes of 3,100 international students revealed that more than 50 per cent believed the UK Government was either “not welcoming” or “not welcoming at all towards overseas students”.

Everybody knows that from time to time politics becomes a dirty business: Personal attacks, campaigns to undermine and dish the dirt, point scoring wherever you can. Politicians often say, "We will have less yaboo politics" but when push comes to shove, most cannot resist it. It’s tribal.

But what the Leader of UKip  Nigel Farage has engaged in over the last few days goes way beyond the ‘Punch and Judy’ knock about of British politics. 

The Labour party have pledged that if they were to win the next General Election in 2015, they would seriously consider introducing gender and race quotas for top business boards.

Leading the charge was Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna who stated that

One of Britain’s most distinguished cultural thinkers has died. Stuart Hall, often known as the Godfather of multiculturalism, and a giant of cultural theory and sociology passed away after a long illness at the age of 82.

A young Asian PHD student Ashok Kumar has spoken about his relief that video footage proved he did not assault a police officer during a student protest at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) back in 2011. If Kumar had been found guilty his promising academic and professional career would have ended and he could have found himself in jail and with his life in tatters.

Kumar said after being awarded £20,000 in compensation:

The Year of the Horse was welcomed in with a thoroughly entertaining variety show at the New Wolsey Theatre, in Suffolk on Saturday night, 1st of Feb 2014.

The Chinese New Year Show, is the 11th annual production by Suffolk Chinese Family Welfare Association (SCFWA) with the assistance of the theatre technical staff, was a sell out performance.

Lambeth Labour Party have plumbed the depths of political chicanery by seeking to unconstitutionally remove a black woman from her directly elected position as local councillor candidate for the Larkhall Ward in Lambeth’s forthcoming local elections.

The story of a local black woman Adeleline Aina's trails and tribulations is one that should shock all real Labour Party members to their core.

Not dissimilar to the USA, the UK has a growing problem with the phenomena: ‘Driving While Black’ or DWB. Most Black-African, Asians, Caribbean’s- are familiar with the term ‘Driving While Black’ which sees Black drivers being disproportionately stopped by the police for being, well, Black.

Stopwatch, a coalition of organisations and supported by Operation Black Vote, suggests that: