Read the latest blog by Andy Gregg, ROTA Chief Executive. “The most racist piece of legislation in the last 30 years”. So said John McDonnell MP about the new Immigration Bill that the Coalition Government is currently ramming through parliament. The Bill had its second reading on 22nd October and marks the culmination of…… continue…
Yesterday I went to a presentation by George Lakoff – the author of “Don’t think of an elephant! Know your values and frame the debate”. He is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California and specialises in understanding how we can use language to change the way in which debates and ideas are framed….
Between November 2011 and February 2013, ROTA delivered the Shaping the Future seminar series, which considered educational reforms and the current state of play in terms of educational inequality. A concerning discussion point that came up at many of the seminars was that growing numbers of BAME children and young people are being diagnosed with…
Read our latest blog: More Home Office Confusion! by Andy Gregg here.
The Home Office's consultation on police powers of stop and search is a great example of really bad survey and questionnaire design. Many of the questions are unclear or leading and the logic baffling. For example Question 3 "to what extent do you agree that the arrest rate following stop and search is a useful…
A big thank you to all of you who signed ROTA’s petition on the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) and for supporting our campaign to save the PSED. The independent Steering Group of the PSED review published its recommendations on 6thSeptember. Your voice and support has ensured there are no recommendations to remove the Public…
This month, Chief Executive Andy Gregg reviews David Goodhart’s topical book ‘The British Dream’. Read the review here.
Sometimes so-called liberals can do more damage to “social cohesion” then more overtly racist commentators – their positions are less likely to be immediately identified as contaminated with prejudice, assumption and false argument. They provide a complicit softerside to the dog-whistle politics now being employed by the Tories and UKIP. After all, we all know…
See here for recommendations of the review, the ministerial statement, and the NatCen qualitative research that informed the review. The government also launched a consultation on ‘Judicial Review: Proposals for Further Reform’, which will impact on our rights to use judicial review to resolve disputes relating to the Public Sector Equality Duty. See…
Read the latest blog by Andy Gregg, ROTA Chief Executive. For some years it has suited the Government and the media to drive a wedge between, on the one hand the longer settled Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities……continue >>>