Badenoch said, after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, it was right that people wanted to ensure this did not happen again.
It led to the Macpherson report, she said.
[It] wanted to put right what went wrong with policing in the 1990s.
However, in attempting to do so, it also enshrined a principle which I believe is wrong that a racist incident is racist if it is perceived as racist by the victim or any other person.
Equality law, properly designed, should protect us all in the same way. It should be a shield, not a sword.
It should protect people from discrimination. It should protect people from being treated differently because of their race, sex, religion, sexuality, disability or age.
A man whose house in Belfast was "completely" destroyed during disorder last night said he lost "sentimental" items in the fire, including items belonging to his late father.
Political and religious leaders in Northern Ireland saw early Wednesday morning — with the embers of a long night of violence in Belfast and other parts of the region still smoldering — that their calls for calm had fallen on deaf ears. Cars, buses, phone booths, and trash cans set ablaze. Homes where immigrants — or simply people from ethnic minorities — were believed to live, completely engulfed in flames after violent groups targeted them as places that needed to be “liberated.”
Lisa McGee is back doing what she does best: Writing bizarre situations for a group of teenage school friends wrapped up in a ‘90s soundtrack. While she rose to prominence with Derry Girls featuring Nicola Coughlan in 2018, her latest series, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, is as if Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Clare, and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell) accidentally murdered “the wee English fella” (Dylan Llewellyn) and Sister Michael (Siobhán McSweeney) tried to hunt them down 20 years later.
Hadi Alodid refused legal representation and made no reply to charges which were put put to him through an Arabic interpreter as he appeared in court charged with attempted murder following the Belfast knife attack, the Press Association reports.
The 30-year-old, with an address at Duncairn Avenue in Belfast, appeared before the city’s magistrates’ court on Wednesday morning.
He is charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie on Monday, with threatening to kill an NHS radiographer on the same day and with the possession of a knife.
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