discrimination

As I left my home on the freezing 4th of November morning in 2015, weary-eyed and barely awake, I felt a knot in the pit of my stomach for what the day ahead would hold. I was making the mammoth journey to Krakow, Poland and back in just one...

Affirmative action (also known as positive discrimination in the UK) is a system whereby members of groups known to have been previously discriminated against are given preferential treatment in the employment or education process. This can be in the form of quotas, or just employer/recruiter making their decision with...

After a controversial and complex history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a chance to do the right thing. The only problem for the Academy though, in taking this chance, is that no one seems to know what the right thing entails. On 5th October 2017,...

Have you ever donated blood? If so, you will realise the monumental impact your donation could have on saving the lives of patients who are in desperate need of transfusion. If not, it’s likely that you have taken that opportunity for granted. Since 2011, the UK enforces a 12-month...

To question whether Britain is racist is for many an uncomfortable, loaded and ugly question. In a recent BBC programme and Guardian article, Mona Chalabi asks the pertinent question, ‘is Britain racist?’ In the show she attends an English Defence league protest, has three people of different race spend...