The debate over the powers available to enforce the Race Relations Act: are the powers strong enough and if not, how can it possibly work?
Racist Britain
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The report includes a secret recording of an Indian man refused a hair cut from a local barber.
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The Act defines discrimination as treating a person less favourably than another person o grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origins in the provision to the public of goods, facilities and services, and in employment and housing.
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“Disturbances involving coloured immigrants took place in Nottingham and North Kensington at the end of august and beginning of September 1958”
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‘… as a matter of urgency the government (should) institute a high level and independent inquiry into the causes of the underachievement of children of West Indian origin in maintained schools and the remedial action required’.
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A teenager who was part of a banned neo-Nazi group has been jailed for preparing acts of terrorism.
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Ofcom has, at the time of writing, received more than 1,900 complaints over an episode of Britain’s Got Talent in which Alesha wore a Black Lives Matter necklace.