ROTA Launches New Podcast ‘Talking About Race’

ROTA Launches New Podcast ‘Talking About Race’

ROTA are launching a brand new podcast ‘Talking About Race’. With a new episode released every fortnight, we will be hosting expert guests from across the anti-racism space to discuss the issues facing Black and Global Majority communities across the UK and beyond. For our first episode, we are joined by Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, the…

ROTA’s response to Renters Rights Bill
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ROTA’s response to Renters Rights Bill

We, the Board and Staff of Race on the Agenda (ROTA) note that the Impact Assessment of the Renters’ Rights Bill addresses rental discrimination against tenants receiving benefits or having children. The Bill rightly seeks to make it unlawful for landlords to discriminate on these grounds. However, it is crucial to emphasise that discrimination based…

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ROTA Policy Positions on the Government’s ‘Five Missions’ 

While we support key government priorities such as equitable economic growth, clean energy, public safety, and healthcare reform, we emphasise the need for targeted action to address longstanding racial disparities across these areas. This includes protecting frontline services, addressing housing inequality, ensuring environmental justice, and promoting equitable reform in policing, education, and healthcare. Our recommendations…

ROTA’s Response to Islamophobic comments from Lee Anderson

ROTA’s Response to Islamophobic comments from Lee Anderson

The deeply Islamophobic comments from former Conservative ministers Lee Anderson and Suella Braverman over the past week are only the latest in a campaign of racist, hateful rhetoric from some British politicians. From Boris Johnson’s highly offensive comparison of Muslim women to ‘letterboxes’, to Suella Braverman’s likening of refugees in small boats to an ‘invasion’,…