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The Black Paper
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Who’s next: Does Britain have a problem with Black excellence?Send us Fan Mail Summary In this episode, we discuss the recent fallout from the death of Professor Jason Arde, exploring themes of racism, education, and immigration policy. We re…
Black in, Black out: The struggles of being Black in BritainSend us Fan MailSummary The resignation of Cambridge professor Jason Arday raises difficult questions about race, excellence, representation and the burden placed on Black success.…
My son is a plumber: Are African communities ready for apprenticeship?Send us Fan MailSummary Andy Burnham wants to put apprenticeships on the same footing as university. But will African families buy into the vision? This week, we explore why univer…
Rev. Clive Foster: On Windrush, community, and faithSend us Fan MailSummaryIn this episode, we speak with Reverend Clive Foster, the UK's first Windrush Commissioner, about justice, community engagement, and the importance of advoca…
Burnham Begins: But, is he for us?Send us Fan MailSummary Andy Burnham is in Downing Street. The mood has changed, but what about the direction?This week, we examine the first 48 hours of the Burnham government thr…
Garbage in, garbage out: Is Farage in the dumps?Send us Fan Mail Summary Nigel Farage has resigned his parliamentary seat - and immediately announced he is standing again in the resulting by-election. The reason? A formal parlia…
Do no harm: Dr. Fatima Eltinay on the Baroness Amos reportSend us Fan MailSummary Dr Fatima Eltinay is a Consultant Anaesthetist, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire, and Chair of Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch. Her work s…
All hail the King: Is Andy Burnham "for us"?Send us Fan Mail Summary Less than two years after Labour’s landslide, Keir Starmer is out.This week on The Black Paper, we go beyond the Westminster headlines to ask what really b…
Bayo Alaba MP: Representation still mattersSend us Fan MailSummary In this episode of The Black Paper, we sit down with Bayo Alaba, the first Labour MP to represent Southend East and Rochford, to explore his journey from gr…
Pure, cold rage: Is political violence getting normalised?Send us Fan Mail Summary In the wake of the sentencing of the killer of Henry Nowak, Nigel Farage took to the podium to do what he does best: dog-whistle politics. Only this time,…
- Don't take it lying down: visa scams and prostate checks
Send us Fan Mail Summary A landmark employment tribunal has awarded nearly £30,000 to a care worker who relocated to the UK under the post-Brexit visa scheme, only to receive zero…
David Weaver: Tired, but not tapping outSend us Fan MailSummary What happens when a community can speak eloquently about its problems, but not so much about the solutions?We explore this in the latest episode of The Blac…
What lies beneath: Examining the Domestic Violence Concession statusSend us Fan Mail SummaryIt’s been one year already!So, where better to start than by a quick reflection on the year so far - which didn’t last long, because Cheta decided to talk y…
Beginning of the end: Is Starmer’s premiership over?Send us Fan MailWrite to your MPClick on this link to write to your MP about Cllr Glenn Gibbins’s death threat to Nigerians: https://theblackpaper.co.uk/write-to-mp.html NIGERIAN-…
Numbers don't lie: Labour's African vote problemSend us Fan MailSummaryAhead of the 7 May local elections, we surveyed 123 African heritage voters across the UK. The findings confirmed some things we suspected, complicated a few…
- Democracy for sale: what does Christopher Harborne really want?
Send us Fan MailSummaryOn this episode, we ask why Christopher Harborne, a reclusive Sheffield-born billionaire living in Thailand, has donated more than £22 million to Reform UK,…
- Prince of Darkness: will Peter Mandelson dim Starmer's light?
Send us Fan MailSummaryWill Peter Mandelson be the end of Keir Starmer's premiership?In this episode, we explore how a need to contain Trump may lead to the overthrow of the curren…
- On your mandate: are we ready for African Reform Councillors?
Send us Fan MailSummaryReform has unveiled its list of Council candidates for May, and their supporters are having a meltdown! Why? Because there are Black and Brown candidates amo…
- Politics is a market place: why we should never stop engaging.
Send us Fan MailKemi Badenoch is reported to be Britain's most popular party leader. But as Reform's poll numbers wobble, we ask whether the media has quietly shifted its gaze - an…
- New class, same politics: Will Angela Rayner save the ILR debate?
Send us Fan MailSummaryHas Angela Rayner taken the first step in a leadership challenge - and what does it mean for our community?In this episode, we explore the changing nature of…
