I spoke to Green Party activists across western Europe for this piece on anti-racism in practice and the challenges that progressive parties still face.
I wrote up this more personal piece for the wonderful Vittles newsletter on making mandazi, an East African fried food, in the challenging circumstances of lockdown.
Every immigrant culture has a genre of food that can be tentatively called aunty food: the type of food item that is almost exclusively only supplied to order by an aunty (an aunty is not necessarily a relative, just someone in the community). Mandazi is one of the East African diaspora’s aunty foods.
I wrote up a comment about where the Green Party’s leadership should be looking on movement-building.
Movement building should be the Green Party of England and Wales’ most important long-term aim. One of the most important things brought about by Natalie Bennett’s 2012 was her advocacy for what then was known as the “West Midlands Model”, a system developed -you guessed it – in the West Midlands, whereby local party campaigning was coordinated at the regional level. Read the full article.
In the week following lockdown I wrote a briefing in my day job highlighting the specific risks facing people of colour in the UK from COVID19. I have written dozens of these over the years on different topics, drawing together specific evidence about an issue like mental health, access to GPs or benefit reforms and putting it into the context of the UK’s wider racial inequalities. Read the full article.
BMJ Open article on NHS workforce discrimination
Posted: February 29, 2020 in articles, healthTags: NHS, racism
This was a piece of work done as part of my then day job at the Race Equality Foundation, working with academics at Queen Mary to understand differences in NHS staffing by race, class and gender.
Alex Phillips, the Green MEP for the South East of England asked me to put together a report on the Green New Deal. The publication looks at what a Green New Deal might look like at the local level, specifically in Dover and on the Isle of Wight. It brings together the available data and information with interviews from people who are already working on the solutions and enablers for a Green New Deal.
I’ve got another Beirut article out, this time in the print copy of the New Humanist as part of their special edition on religion and power. You can get access from their website. https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5475/race-to-the-future
Hundreds of Commonwealth nationals evicted under anti-migrant ‘right to rent’ rule
Posted: February 19, 2019 in articles, housingFigures obtained by Politics.co.uk reveal that almost 300 Commonwealth nationals have been evicted from their homes under the government’s controversial ‘right to rent’ rules, raising concerns that members of the Windrush generation could have been affected.
