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Tue 20 Oct – 11 BST on @ResonanceFM #workplacennd reads from @GoldsmithsPress' Black Film British Cinema II. The essay says mainstream #FilmIndustry gatekeeps so the global majority are stereotyped, marginalised or excluded. Is this true? What’s the solution? #BlackHistoryMonth

Wow, the show just ended, but what a surprise @workplacennd had at the end - a compilation of snippets of Sony Roberts/Orbitone/Tackle related releases covering soca, calypso, highlife, etc... we'll expand on that in a special video to be premiered at the Oct. 31 event👇

Wow, the show just ended, but what a surprise @workplacennd had at the end - a compilation of snippets of Sony Roberts/Orbitone/Tackle related releases covering soca, calypso, highlife, etc... we'll expand on that in a special video to be premiered at the Oct. 31 event👇

‘Australia without migrant workers’ Who made this? 👏 Mandatory viewing for any fool who still doesn’t understand the implications of slamming the gates shut.

they key absurd moment......

As I’ve said before, I’m not English. I’m proud to be British. My family and ancestors have a link to Britain which spans centuries. But in no way are we English. Yes, I was born in England, speak English and support the England football team. And indeed, I love England and the English people. But to say I’m English is to take a ‘laissez-faire, anything-goes’ attitude to ethnicity, citizenship and identity. It also denies me my Asian heritage. The liberals (many of them in today’s Conservative Party) take this cosmopolitan approach to Englishness. They’re terrified of being called racist so they say that anyone, as long as they’re born here, can be English. I take the conservative approach. Englishness is an ethnicity. There have been English people for centuries and we need to recognise this more if we are to start taking a more muscular approach to citizenship and nationality. And no, it’s not racist to say this. Other countries have no qualms in limiting who can be part of their citizenry and use ethnicity and culture as criteria. Here, the dogma of multiculturalism has been so corrosive that some people don’t actually know who we are anymore.

The oil isn't a costume choice. Jab masquerade comes out of emancipation — formerly enslaved people putting the plantation on their own bodies and walking it down the street. Grenada's Jab Jab plays it in oil at J'ouvert. Trinidad's Jab Molassie, the "molasses devil," carries its own version of the same memory. The festival they're walking in has a sequence worth knowing. After the 1958 Notting Hill riots, Claudia Jones organised London's first Caribbean carnival on 30 January 1959 — indoors, at St Pancras Town Hall in Camden, because a British winter made outdoors impossible. She set the date to match Trinidad's. Four months later, on 17 May 1959, Kelso Cochrane was stabbed to death on Southam Street. Around a thousand people came to his funeral. The street version arrived in 1966. It started indoors because of the weather. It ended up outdoors anyway.

If you missed it, you can hear it again @ResonanceFM on Friday 30th at 13.30 GMT or via podcast after! #work #poverty #inworkpoverty

Nigel Farage just called Reform UKIP by mistake. Except, we all know it's true.

All the former Tories who have defected to Reform UK Suella Braverman Andrew Rosindell Robert Jenrick Nadhim Zahawi Ben Bradley Jonathan Gullis Lia Nici Chris Green Sarah Atherton Malcolm Offord Danny Kruger Nadine Dorries Maria Caulfield Ross Thomson David Jones Graham Simpson Sir Jake Berry Anne Marie Morris Adam Holloway Marco Longhi Aidan Burley Andrea Jenkyns Lee Anderson Conservatives 2.0