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,…
Inspiration & Humour
Happy ’75th’ Birthday Mum
by Kevin Maxwell •
Reviews & News
10,000 Couples and Me!
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Health & Travel
Children’s Mental Health Matters
by Kevin Maxwell •
Articles Published
Immigration: good for multicultural Britain
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
My Open Letter
by Kevin Maxwell •
Inspiration & Humour
My Mum – Lost to Cancer
by Kevin Maxwell •
Broken Britain & Policing
Anthony France & The Sun!
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
The Met, The Sun & Me…
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
My Fight for Justice
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
Respect… goes both ways!
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
Facebook is… YOUR Tweeting Space to be Linkedin!
by Kevin Maxwell •
Inspiration & Humour
A ‘Truly’ Special Relationship…
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
Why Racism is Vile…
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Broken Britain & Policing
News Headline… Auntie has turned me French!
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…
Articles Published
What’s Race got to do with Identity?
by Kevin Maxwell •
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…