There is talk especially in London with regards to Stop & Search by the Police being overhauled, one aspect being to improve relations between the Metropolitan Police – Britain’s biggest police force, and black people. Anything which improves the relationship between the police, and all the communities it serves is a good thing. However, this is not…
Oh the irony. I was going about my business today, when I saw a London Bus advertisement for Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5. I don’t watch television, just films really – so, won’t be tuning-in. I prefer ‘I’m NOT A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ Anyway, whilst socially-networking earlier (I used to have…
I saw on a friend’s Facebook page earlier, a video that even shocked me – and it takes a lot these days! It reinforced not that I really needed it, why Racism Ruins Lives (a cause I champion) and why I will continue to fight all forms of discrimination around me. I don’t really believe…
Is there such a thing? Being LGB (Liverpudlian, Gay & Black) / Forced Out
The events of the past 3-days in London and other parts of England like my hometown Liverpool, and Manchester where I spent 10-years during and after university, are quite rightly shocking and disturbing. It is however heartening to see that ‘most’ people, young, old, black and white are uniting together to condemn what has taken…
Today in my hometown, it’s Liverpool Pride – a festival celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) culture. It is also a day, for me to remember once more the murder of Michael Causer, a fellow Scouser at the age of just 18-years old. The parents of Michael who was beaten to death in the…
With tomorrow being the last day of the News of the World, Britain’s BIGGEST newspaper I have been thinking as to what ‘leaving present’ staff at News International could buy each other. After an extensive search, I found Hacking for Dummies which is available at Amazon and all good bookstores. Rightly so for those who…
With the announcement this week of investigations and enquiries into the hacking of mobile telephones by News International, I continue in My Fight for Justice as to who in the Metropolitan Police (the force doing the hacking investigation) gave my private data to News International and The Sun newspaper. The recent revelations involving News International…
It is just under a year now on 24 July 2010, that I found out on a Saturday afternoon that my employer the Metropolitan Police Service had leaked my private and confidential information to The Sun newspaper. The Sun was going to run a negative story about me, making public my sexuality as a gay…
The recent revelation that the News of the World newspaper hacked not only celebrities and politicians telephones (who also have a right to privacy), but that of murder victims in particular children is shocking. When I heard of this news, although it disgusted me I did not expect any better of an organisation like News…
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,…
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…
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…