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ANIMAL RESEARCH Unpublished letter on the Weatherall committee’s report. “We do not doubt a crying child’s ability to experience pain simply because it may not be able to protest to us in words.” [Dec 06]
EUROPRIDE Festival July 06 - GPEW LGBT leaflet.
RACIAL PROFILING Letter in Guardian on racial profiling and supporting Desai. “We need more like him if we are to maintain our sense of justice and proportion in the battle of ideas.” [Aug 06]
RACIAL PROFILING Letter in Evening Standard defending Ali Desai on racial profiling. “London’s black population is four times more likely to be stopped than whites.”[Aug 06]
STEREOTYPING Letter in Willesden Observer series about inappropriate racial comment following murder. “The Brent I love has no place for such gross racial stereotyping.” [Jan 06]
STOP-AND-SEARCH Letter in Willesden Observer series defending councillor despite calls for his resignation following stop. “His feeling of arbitrary treatment on grounds of race will be shared by many across London, specifically with regard to rightly controversial stop-and-search powers.” [Feb 06]
RACIAL PROFILING Letter in Evening Standard about stop and search and racial profiling. “It does nothing to legitimise a policy with well-documented racist effects that it should be advocated by well-intentioned non-racists.” [Aug 05
HUMAN RIGHTS Letter in Muslim Times about classifying Muslim candidates. “Not only Muslims are interested in human rights.” [May 05]
PET MUTILATION Letter in Wembley and Harrow Observer series about animal mutilation concerns. “The Green Party criticises the prevailing assumption that animals can be used for any purpose that benefits humankind.” [Jly 04]
COMMODIFYING BABIES Letter in Independent about commodifying babies. “You fail to distinguish between bringing a child into existence primarily for its own sake and bringing it into existence also for the sake of a terminally ill sibling.” [Dec 02]