I was speaking with a university academic friend at the end of last week, and he asked me… with everything that is going on between me and the Metropolitan Police (My Fight for Justice) – how I kept the ‘wolf from the door’? The fact is I can’t. I haven’t wrote anything since last week,…
Today, had My Mum been here, she would have turned 75 on this the 24 June 2011. Sadly, she died in 2004 aged 67 from ovarian cancer, and I know I’m not alone in losing a mum at a young age – I was just 26-years old. Despite this, I often tell friends that I…
In August 2010, 10,000 Couples the online US magazine published my Special Comment: Black Pride & Prejudice. I’d only wrote one professional article prior to this for Pink News in the UK, so I felt pretty proud that this magazine had asked to published my article about racism within the gay community. I had gone…
Earlier, I took myself to a coffee shop for some time out. I ordered my Caramel Macchiato (I know!) and waited for it, next to a group of women waiting for their drinks. We all watched as suddenly a shouting match ensued between a mother and her child. The mum was trying to stop her…
In the run-up to the referendum on changing the UK voting system this May, Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech on multicultural Britain, claiming that the country has seriously been damaged by an influx of migrants, many who are from ethnic minority communities. This speech, together with my own experience of racial discrimination, got…
At 3.10pm today, My Mum died 7-years ago from ovarian cancer. It was a battle she fort for three months, but sadly could not win. The kind comments I have received from friends and those who have not met me, remind me of my faith in humanity and that people are fundamentally good. I know…
Today at 3.10pm, marks the 7th anniversary of the death of my beautiful mum, Annie Maxwell. Time does fly, but there has never been a day I have not thought of her, and needed that occasional hug that comforts a child. Sadly, My Mum could not fight her battle, but I’m determined to fight the…
Yesterday, I wrote an article about The Met, The Sun & Me… in My Fight for Justice against the Metropolitan Police Service and racism, and that my mental illness and sexuality where leaked to The Sun newspaper and its publisher News International by Scotland Yard. The Sun reporter Anthony France knew specific private and medical…
Yesterday, I published a blog about My Fight for Justice after learning on Monday that my employer has commenced dismissal proceedings against me. I realised today, that I’m not really going to get justice, even though I have done everything right to try and achieve this. I have been fighting for 2-years now, whilst suffering…
Yesterday, it was confirmed that my employer has commenced dismissal proceedings against me. This means that soon, I will be sacked from my 2001 public sector job, something I have never experienced before. Since August 2010, I have been writing articles for newspapers, magazines and this blog, about a variety of subjects including race, sexuality and…
My ‘View from the Bottom’ on Comment is free (guardian.co.uk) – Young Londoners still don’t feel police are on their side… Yesterday, I was travelling on the top deck of a bus through North London. A white couple where sitting behind me with their two young children. Several stops later, four black teenage girls got on…
I sent one of my friends a message on Facebook earlier, as I saw that some of his friends had given him some grief or ‘deleted’ him for his comments, on the social network. I told my old friend not to care about what others think, as it was his life, his space. This got…
During President Obama’s visit to Britain this week, I heard the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, described as… a ‘truly’ special relationship! I was thinking… erm, can you get better than a special relationship? Apparently, so. Then it came to me… Barack and Michelle (two of my heroes by the way, as…
Earlier, I was checking my emails when I saw a headline that a Police Officer had been stabbed in South London. Naturally, this is an awful crime and no reasonable person condones violence against another, and I wish the officer well. That said, the Press Association article about the incident was brief, only stating the…
Bonjour! In my recent article for The Regent newspaper about… Half a Million Marching for the Alternative (against the Coalition Government’s cuts), I briefly mentioned Auntie Beeb’s biased views of late, which have stopped me watching her news. For some strange reason, it’s been playing on my mind. Maybe I should get a life? Even…
In the run-up to the referendum on changing the UK voting system this May, Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech on multi-cultural Britain, claiming that the country has seriously been damaged by an influx of migrants, many who are from ethnic minority communities. This speech, together with my own experience of racial discrimination, got…