With Barack Obama being sworn in today it seems a good moment to give ourselves a small pat on the back for being the least racist country in Europe and also for the House of Lords being more diverse in its ethnicity and disability than the Commons. I have always known that racism in most of…
In his speech yesterday to mark the tenth anniversary of the Macpherson report, Trevor Phillips – chair of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission – drew attention to the fact that the House of Lords was more ethnically diverse than the House of Commons. Parliament, he argued, was not reflecting changes in British society. “For Parliament to…
