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There is a traditional mistrust by the BME community on the approach to immigration from the Conservative Party. David Cameron appears to have made an honest speech about the current state of immigration in the UK. Since 1997 it is estimated that immigration has increased by 2.5 million.  Is it perhaps time for an open debate about immigration? Writes Keima Allen.

In David Cameron’s view economic migrants come to the UK because there are jobs available otherwise a number of them would have returned home.
 

Prime Minister's Immigration speech manufactures “internal tension” in the Coalition Government writes Lee Jasper.

The PM’s controversial speech on immigration has caused what, on the face of it, appears to be “internal tensions” between the Coalition partners when he outlined his views to Tory party members at a conference in Hampshire this week.

Mr. Cameron accused Labour of talking tough on immigration whilst doing nothing to bring the numbers down.

Billy Bragg joined forces with OBV director Simon Woolley today to launch the anti BNP poster for the 'Yes Vote' campaign.

Musician and Anti Fascism campaigner Billy Bragg said:

What he might have said.

‘Ladies and gentlemen, ponder the next time you go to the doctors, or worse still if you’re forced to go to the hospital. Take a look around at the many Black and minority ethnic (BME) doctors whose expertise literally saves lives, or the thousands of BME nurses, who, in spite of being regularly abused, nurse a nation back to health.

The High Court has reached a ruling that the Metropolitan Police broke the law in their “kettling” of protesters at G20 demonstrations in 2009, writes Guardian crime correspondent Vikram Dodd.

Racism in Italy is not just confined to football stadiums. Such discrimination is a reflection of racism in wider society and the failure of the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Government to tackle these issues remains a significant weakness in the fight against racism.

While Government remains largely inactive inn the fight against racism at least Italians themselves have no such reticence. In a remarkable demonstrate of support thousands of sports fans are planning a spectacular protest against racism

There will be no sympathy for the two young men - Leon Dunkley and Mohammed Smoured - both 22, who will languish behind bars for a minimum of 32 years.

Their cold blooded murder of an innocent young life, Agnes Sina-Inakoju brings anger and sorrow in equal measure: anger at the gangs brutality, sorrow for the parents and friends of Agnes who have to endure a lifetime of such a tragic loss.

The work of a collection of South African photographers a ‘depiction of people and a self-conscious engagement with South Africa's political and photographic past’ is currently on show at the V&A.

The exhibition - Figures & Fictions – highlights the work of seventeen artists whose contemporary South African photography shows figures that ‘raise pertinent issues of identity: how the gaze of the camera, photographer and viewer is returned by the subject, and the balance of power which that interaction implies’.

Robin Smith, head of Host Universal a company which pioneers in ethical communications and brand strategy, writes for OBV about the work being done to revitalise tourism in St Lucia to the benifit of the local community.

Having been adversely affected by the deterioration of the banana industry over the past fifteen years, the communities of Dennery & Mabouya, Saint Lucia, are now looking to become a showcase for community based tourism.