The Tory Troll reports that the latest batch of publicity for the approaching Rise festival now features a quote from Boris claiming it “is still an anti-racist event”. It seems between the various people making decisions for him, they can’t quite agree on the nuances of their message here.
The latest news here is that apparently [...]
Anti-racism rises again – a bit
July 1st, 2008 9 Comments
Tags: anti-racism · rise · value for money
Yes, Boris really didn’t propose, authorise or know about the axing of ‘anti-racism’
June 19th, 2008 7 Comments
From the comments on my previous post it sounds like tonight’s BBC London footage [relevant clip starts 43 seconds in] hadn’t aired before and therefore came as just as much of a shock to everyone else as it did to me and Mrs. Stop Boris (who picked her jaw up off the floor in time [...]
Tags: anti-racism · grasp of detail · incompetence · rise · team · transparency
"Man of detail?" asks BBC London, two months too late
June 19th, 2008 11 Comments
In the wake of what it wouldn’t surprise me to find the mainstream media calling Memorandumgate, BBC London tonight finally noticed that Boris might not actually be in control of his brief, shall we say.
They just ran a rather revealing report, which contained astonishing footage I hadn’t previously seen (although I was in Scotland when [...]
Tags: anti-racism · grasp of detail · incompetence · rise · transparency
Rise and the fall of ‘anti-racism’
June 15th, 2008 4 Comments
Dave Hill alerts me that the long-running festival sometimes referred to as “Kenstock”, but more officially known as “Rise: London United Against Racism”, seems to have been rebranded this year, to remove all references to opposing racism.
When I made the Rise-based Stop Boris campaign poster in March, I must admit I didn’t seriously entertain the possibility [...]
Tags: anti-racism · racism · rewriting history · rise