Ethnic minority Britons believe royal family IS racist, YouGov poll reveals 

Ethnic minority Britons believe royal family IS racist and 43% don’t want the monarchy to continue – but 67% like the Queen, YouGov poll reveals A poll found 43 per cent of ethnic minority Britons believe royal family is racist  Of the general UK population 55 per cent believe royals not racist, YouGov found Survey … Read more

Ethnic minority voters believe royal family IS racist, YouGov poll reveals 

Ethnic minority voters believe royal family IS racist and 43% don’t want the monarchy to continue – but 67% like the Queen, YouGov poll reveals A poll found 43 per cent of ethnic minority Britons believe royal family is racist  Of the general UK population 55 per cent believe royals not racist, YouGov found Survey … Read more

Early Covid surges were 150% more common in counties with large minority populations

Coronavirus has left no corner of the U.S. untouched, but counties with large minority populations are up to 150% more likely to have been hard-hit by infections compared to mostly white regions of the country, new data shows.  The virus spread like wildfire in communities of color, taking off fastest first in areas with large … Read more

Jewish groups blast BBC for holding ‘ridiculous’ debate asking if Jews count as an ethnic minority

Jewish groups have blasted the BBC for holding a ‘ridiculous’ debate questioning whether Jews count as an ethnic minority. The Politics Live show aired a segment yesterday, which debated the issue after MP Angela Rayner declared Scottish Labour’s newly-elected leader Anas Sarwar as ‘the first ever ethnic minority leader of a political party anywhere in … Read more

Almost half of people in some areas with high ethnic minority populations are refusing jab

Nearly half of all people in some areas with a large population of ethnic minorities are refusing the Covid vaccine when offered it due to fears about what it contains. In Birmingham, 50 per cent of those living in areas with high populations of Asian and African-Caribbean people turned down the vaccine when offered it. In … Read more

Black, minority Britons hit hardest by COVID job…

Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in Britain have been hit harder by job losses during the coronavirus crisis than white people, researchers have found. The share of BAME people in employment fell to 67.4% in April from 72.0% in February, researchers have said. That was a bigger drop than a decline to 79.4% … Read more

Openreach boss would back selling minority stake to the right investor

Openreach boss would back selling a minority stake in the business – if they found the right investor By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 22 December 2020 The boss of BT’s network arm would back selling a minority stake in the business – if … Read more

Northern police vow to crack down on ‘minority’ putting ‘lives at risk’ by flouting Covid rules

Five Northern police chiefs have promised to crack down on the ‘minority’ who flout Covid rules and put ‘lives at risk’, on the eve of the second nationwide lockdown. Chief constables Darren Martland of Cheshire, Michelle Skeer of Cumbria, Ian Hopkins pf Greater Manchester, Andy Rhodes of Lancashire and Andy Cooke of Merseyside said they … Read more

CBI’s first ethnic minority president leads FTSE 350 diversity drive 

A new drive to increase the numbers of black, Asian and ethnic minority directors sitting on the boards of UK companies is being launched today. The initiative is being spearheaded by Lord Bilimoria, the first ethnic minority president of employers’ organisation the CBI in its 55-year history. It comes as the British-Indian peer, who was … Read more

BBC driving away working class, young and ethnic minority viewers Tim Davie admits 

Tim Davie has admitted the BBC does not deliver ‘equally’ to everyone in the UK, saying metropolitan organisations can feel ‘distant’ from some parts of the population.  In a frank discussion yesterday, the new BBC director-general added some parts of the country ‘don’t necessarily feel the broadcaster is for them’. The BBC boss, speaking at a Royal … Read more