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The recent media brouhaha about a simple tweet by Diane Abbott MP is a reflection of the continued right wing drift of the current political establishment and the country as a whole.

Abbott’s crime? She used twitter shorthand to refer to the tendency of British white people in power to use divide and rule tactics against black people.

Traditionally used as a means of maintaining control and weakening political oppositions, she was making a broader political point that is factually correct and largely uncontroversial.

One of the biggest hospital trusts in England has been forced to pay out £1 million in damages after being found guilty of racial discrimination.

Central Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust was also accused of institutionalised racism after sacked senior manager Eliot Browne won his case of racial discrimination and unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal.

In eighteen short years Duwayne Brooks has lived a lifetime. He has witnessed his best friend Stephen Lawrence-Steve to him- savagely murdered.

The police accussed him and Stephen of being gang members, others accused him of ensuring that the private prosecution of those who killed Stephen failed.

He is now an elected local legislator with his eyes on a bigger political prize. Here in three parts he talks about all of this and more. Brooks said, 'Through OBV I want to speak to my community'.

Television presenter Jeremy Clarkson has a habit of making on-air gaffes and saying the wrong things on a regular basis.

In the past few months, Clarkson has managed to offend nearly every time he has opened his mouth. Back in November, he said public sector workers who went on strike should be "executed in front of their families" while the BBC received complaints of Clarkson mocking Indian culture during Top Gear Christmas special filmed in India.

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Millions of South Africans danced and revelled throughout the day and night as the African National Congress, arguably Africa’s oldest liberation movement, celebrated its 100th Anniversary yesterday.

African leaders and former heads of state, along with African kings and chieftains, attended a midnight ceremony where President Jacob Zuma lit a flame, which will stay alight the entire year, at the Bloemfontein church where black intellectuals and activists founded the party in 1912.

A judge has criticised the constraints imposed on him during sentencing of a former soldier who admitted making racist remarks about Muslims.

Judge Niclas Parry said it was staggering he could only impose a fine on John Parkin, from Rhyl, who said he wanted to "shoot Muslims in the head" and admitted being a racist.

Judge Parry, who labelled Parkin a racist and a bigot, jailed him for 10 months for breaching an earlier suspended sentence. But he said he could only fine Parkin for charges of religiously aggravated public order offences against Muslims.

There have been literally thousands of the most wretched comments imaginable directed towards Diane Abbott MP over her semantic error during a tweeting conversation two days ago. On numerous occasions she has been described as worse than the killers of Stephen Lawrence. Her crime was to casually and clumsily state that ‘white people always try and divide and rule Black people’. Her mortal error was not to qualify her statement with ‘Some white …’

Sylvia Maharaj is well used to being called ‘Ma’am’. Serving as a magistrate for over 20 years in North East London, she was often referred to as Ma’am when performing her magisterial responsibilities. This week, she was named in the New Year’s Honours List and will receive an OBE for services to the Administration of Justice.

A group of activists and campaigners joined civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson to give their thoughts following the convictions of two men for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence.