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This blood thirsty atrocity predicated in religious and racial hatred is unforgivable.

But what can never be said too often is that every tolerated or ignored slur or innuendo - racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic - especially from politicians and political leaders everywhere helps to fuel this climate in which these and other would be murderers become emboldened.

Update 11 Mar 2019: the scheme is now closed for application

The nation's most successful mentoring scheme is up and running for a second year and now it's your opportunity to follow in the footsteps of Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees, and previous Government Ministers Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Helen Grant.

We're looking for the best; the most committed, community orientated, dynamic individuals to help change our world.

Inadvertently, my son encouraged me to pick up a novel about the Holocaust. In the run up to the Holocaust Memorial Day he had come home from school with a project about Auschwitz, the Sonndo-commandos and other related topics. Like many parents, as often as possible we like to discuss the books and projects my son is working on.

During a recent visit to City University in London as Patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, Meghan Markle voiced support for efforts to “decolonise the curriculum” and disbelief at the lack of diversity in university professorships.

Beyond the usual hysteria about the Duchess’ “political action” there has been broader backlash to the campaign, ranging from fears about a system of racial hiring quotas to denial that racism is a pervasive force in education at all.

Intro: Welcome to Nina Grace Kambili, our newest intern from the University of New York, studying public policy. With all our volunteers and interns we try to give them a rounded experience, but also to develop their own creativity and understanding within the space we work in. In her first article we asked Nina what was her take on the way the US viewed the Liam Neeson race episode. It's a very impressive first piece. Simon Woolley

In order to promote his latest film ‘Cold Pursuit’, the Hollywood star Liam Neeson spoke about his plan to kill a Black man, any Black man, to avenge his friend who had been raped by a Black person.

"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could … kill him.”

No sooner had the film Black Panther, with its largely African cast get nominated for best film by the OSCARS, that the poisonous pens around the world begun their disparaging remarks, that 'Political correctness' was at the heart of the nomination, not the fact that it was a utterly ground-breaking, yet universal film, superbly acted, that entertained audiences to make the biggest Marvel box office success ever.

One critic stated:

Black Panther getting nominated for the Oscars is Political Correctness at its' worst."

Monday was MLK Day (Dr Martin Luther King) in the US. It’s a national holiday that celebrates the achievement of one of the greatest men of the 20th Century.

The ground breaking David Lammy Review into Race and the Criminal Justice System laid bare the multiple levels of gross racial inequalities: From, Police Stop and Search, to arrest, to sentencing, bail and parole, the treatment to BME individuals, particularly African and Caribbean was much more negative.

Among many of the recommendations Lammy demanded was greater BME representation throughout the Criminal Justice System, including Judges, magistrates and Parole Board members.