Enhancing our equalities work: proposed Lib Dem Vice President changes
Coming up at the Lib Dem spring conference is a motion to enhance the role of Vice President “responsible for working with BaME communities”. … Read the full post »
Isabelle Parasram
Read my posts about Liberal Democrat activist and candidate, Isabelle Parasram.
What’s it like to be disabled in Britain in 2021?
We’ve been blown away by the response to our forthcoming webinar: ‘What’s it like to be dsabled in Britain in 2021?’ with speakers Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Michelle Daley and Dan White. … Read the full post »
Lady Justice: has she failed women?
The deadline for sending in comments on the CPS consultation on its legal guidance on rape is coming up soon and, a few days in advance of that… … Read the full post »
Thank you, Kirsty Williams
I should start with a word of thanks – in fact, many words of thanks – to Kirsty Williams. She has announced that she will be standing down at the Welsh Senedd elections. … Read the full post »
What does it mean to be Black in Britian in 2020?
This year’s Black History Month has arrived at a time where the topics of identity, race, culture and equality rarely seem to be out of the national conversation. … Read the full post »
A fair society is a resilient society: the future for the Lib Dems (LDN #136)
A fair society is one that can best protect and nourish us in the face of the challenges of the age, immediate ones such as coronavirus, long-term ones such as climate change, and endemic ones such as social injustice. … Read the full post »
Remembering Stephen Lawrence
Today is the day that we commemorate the life of Stephen Lawrence – a black British teenager who, in 1993, was killed in an unprovoked racist attack by a gang of white men. … Read the full post »
A Passover like no other
Over the next eight days, in the UK and around the world, Jewish people will commemorate the liberation of their ancestors from slavery in ancient Egypt. … Read the full post »
Learning the lessons of the Windrush scandal: Isabelle Parasram
The Government must introduce compassion and common sense into our immigration system. That means making detention an absolute last resort. … Read the full post »
Isabelle Parasram re-elected as Vice President of the Liberal Democrats
A former Parliamentary and GLA candidate, Isabelle Parasram was born in East London to Indo-Caribbean parents of the Windrush generation. … Read the full post »