Tag Archive for Race

Caste discrimination – Lord Avebury

Guest Contributor

In the closing days of the session that has just ended, the Government were defeated twice in the House of Lords on an amendment to the Equality Act, inserted into the Enterprise Bill, to make caste a legally protected characteristic.   Ministers then gave in, so that after years of campaigning by organisations representing the…

Race in Britain

Lord Soley

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…