To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.
I’m not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.
When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet – it wants to know what my opinion is.
The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.
Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment – it can be institutional too.
The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.
We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far – let’s take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.
I’m just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.
Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved.
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