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Listening, Learning and Acting Together: Why are British Jews afraid?

Foreword: This Is Not Abstract – This Is Happening Here Across the UK and here in Greater Manchester recent months have seen a disturbing rise in antisemitic incidents: verbal abuse in the street, intimidation outside places of worship, online harassment spilling into real-world threats, and Jewish individuals being targeted simply for who they are. These

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What the UK’s 2026 Headlines Are Telling Us About Protected Characteristics — and Why Intersectionality Must Shape Our Response

Since January 2026, equality issues linked to the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 have continued to surface across UK policy, public debate, and everyday life. Some have dominated headlines. Others have remained quieter. But together, they reveal something important: Inequality in the UK is not isolated, and it is not experienced one characteristic

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When History Whispers: Immigration, Racism and the Cost of Silence

Foreword I have spent much of my professional life working in equality, governance and education, sitting in managing staff, teaching in classrooms, speaking in boardrooms, delivering training, challenging policy, and listening to lived experiences. I have heard the quiet exhaustion in the voices of people who have had to prove they belong. I have seen

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Black History Month (USA)

What Is Racism? Why It Matters. How To Be Anti-Racist.(With guidance for UK organisations preparing for Black History Month in October) During Black History Month in the United States (February), people reflect on history, justice, civil rights and equality. In the UK, Black History Month takes place in October. Although the histories differ, the core

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When Society Needs Us – But Don’t Value Us: Lessons from Women’s Rights and the Windrush Generation

History shows us a troubling pattern: when certain groups are deemed “less capable” or “less worthy,” their rights are slowly eroded. They are pushed to the margins, their voices silenced, and their contributions overlooked. Yet in moments of national crisis, those same groups are suddenly called upon to step forward, to rebuild, to serve, and

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Our Schools Need Governors Who Look Like Our Children

Why Ethnic Diversity in School Governance Matters Across the UK, the school population is becoming more ethnically diverse every year, yet the people who govern our schools do not reflect this reality. Children from ethnically diverse backgrounds now make up a significant proportion of pupils in England, but that diversity is not matched in the

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I don’t see Colour

They say, “I don’t see colour,” with kindness in their tone,But words can hide meanings we’ve never fully known.To not see the colour is to not see the fight,The stories, the struggles, the strength and the light. Race is an identity, lived every day,Shaped by culture and history along the way.When colour is blurred and

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Racism Is Learned — But the Damage Lasts a Lifetime

Recent news stories about Nigel Farage’s racist behaviour in his youth have prompted a familiar public response. Some rush to minimise it: “It was a different time.” “He was young.” “People are too offended now.” These reactions miss the point entirely. Racism is not something people are born with. It is learned. It is absorbed

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Seeing Inequality Clearly: Racism in UK Workplaces, Schools, Councils, and the NHS

Racism in the UK is not an occasional outburst or something that only happens “over there.” It is a pattern visible in statistics but lived as experience in boardrooms and classrooms, in council offices and hospital wards. To confront racism, we must see it where it already exists, understand how it harms people, and commit

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Confronting Racism in the UK: Seeing the System, Naming the Harm, Shifting the Power

Racism in the UK is not only the rare, headline-grabbing incident. For many people, it is a pattern: repeated barriers, coded messages, unequal outcomes, and the quiet fatigue of having to prove again and again that what they experienced was real. The most difficult truth is this: racism can exist even when nobody “means it.”

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