It didn’t take long for the world to feel the pandemic’s impact on existing inequalities. A year after the arrival of COVID-19, however, and many of those outcomes have proven to be far more wide-reaching and devastating than anticipated, especially where race and ethnicity is concerned.
As more research emerged over the course of the past year, the role that structural racism has played in furthering these inequalities has become increasingly apparent. Vaccine mistrust among black and Asian communities has been revealed to be far more complex than initially portrayed by the government. The limitations of also looking at data through a “BAME” lens have been exposed, with calls for less generalised information about COVID-19-related outcomes for wildly disparate and varied ethnic groups. And within the youth labour market, black people have been hit the hardest by COVID-19 restrictions.
The return of Tory sleaze: a scandal set to haunt Boris Johnson
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14 Apr 2021
Just when I was starting to warm to my old university dope-smoking compadre David Cameron he gets himself involved in a scandal which reflects very badly both on his personal judgement and on declining standards generally among our disgraceful political class.
The former Conservative Prime Minister has been caught lobbying for a very dodgy-sounding financial firm called Greensill Capital. He sent texts to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak urging him to fork out millions of taxpayers’ money to bail out the ailing company under cover of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. Sun:
He is also said to have been in contact with other Government ministers as well after going to work for the firm after leaving No10.
Churches can be a refuge for women fleeing domestic abuse. But sometimes they can help perpetuate abuse by failing to offer support when needed. There can be many reasons for this. Sometimes it’s because church leaders simply don’t understand – or are not willing to accept – that domestic abuse occurs within their congregations.
I have spent five years with the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (BCDAF) and helped create a programme to train church leaders on the most vital issues in the hope it will address domestic abuse in those communities.
Black majority churches are churches of any denomination where most of the congregation are of African or Caribbean heritage and have over 100 years of history within the UK. They provide spaces for belonging, solace, fellowship and support for those suffering from racial discrimination.
CLEANERS at the University of East London (UEL) will stage a protest next week as part of their #CleanersDemandEquality campaign for improved working conditions.
The workers, represented by the Cleaners and Allied Independent Union (CAIWU), confirmed today that the event will take place at UEL’s Docklands campus on April 13.
They have accused outsourcing firm Nviro of victimisation, favouritism, poor working conditions and “unscrupulous management practices.”
Numerous claims of workplace negligence have also been reported to the CAIWU, including “dangerously inadequate” personal protective equipment and unsafe measures for the handling of clinical waste.
UEL students’ #SaveUEL campaign has publicly declared its support for the protest and said it stands in solidarity with the key workers.
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