fascism
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State-endorsed fascism in Britain – this time they are after the disabled
In some ways, I feel I’ve become a bit too sensitive of late when it comes to “disablist” gags, but maybe I’m just hyper vigilant these days. The smear campaign the DWP and the media are carrying out on disabled people has made me and thousands of other disabled people distinctly uneasy. Why is it…
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EHRC v BNP (2009) :It’s a game of Monopoly
“The British National Party is poised to give up its whites-only membership policy after a legal challenge accusing it of racial discrimination,” reports The Times. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6820847.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084) The legal challenge, sought by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, accuses the BNP of breaching the Race Relations Acts (2000) due to its fundamentally racist policies. Not that…