Please don’t stay silent …one further reflection on that Robert Jenrick comment about Birmingham

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I have to admit that I can no longer get too worked up about politicians saying the kinds of things that Robert Jenrick said about Handsworth yesterday.  It’s power for the cause for politicians to engage in dog whistle politics. More concerning is that they use the dog whistle approach because they expect it will… Continue reading Please don’t stay silent …one further reflection on that Robert Jenrick comment about Birmingham

Integration, ethnicity and our responsibility ,- responding to Robert Jenrick

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Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has got himself into a spot of bother making comments about Handsworth, an area just down the road from us in Birmingham.  He was caught in tape observing that he did not see a single white face there and went further by identifying this as an example of failure to… Continue reading Integration, ethnicity and our responsibility ,- responding to Robert Jenrick