Sportswear giant Adidas is facing complaints over a new trainer that some say features a racist cartoon image.
The offending footwear includes a yellow picture of an Asian youth with bowl-cut hair, pig nose and buck teeth.
Asian-American groups have complained that the picture on the shoe’s tongue portrays an anti-Asian stereotype.
Adidas said it [...]

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[Does anyone actually believe this rubbish? Thugs are throwing fireworks through 101 letterboxes every night in the UK, but this must be a racist attacks as it just happens to be an immigrant household-ed]
The police are investigating a possible racial motive following an attack in County Antrim.
A firework was put through the letterbox [...]

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Dhiren Barot’s journey from hardworking high school student to international terrorist ended in an emotionless confession to plotting mass murder on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
He pleaded guilty in a London courtroom last week and faces a life sentence for schemes to blow up leading financial institutions in the United States, including the New [...]

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A man who died after being hit by a car in Greater Manchester may have been the victim of a racial incident, police have said.
David Lees, of Heathbank Road, Blackley, died in hospital after being found collapsed on Middleton Road in Prestwich at 0100 BST on Saturday.
The 23-year-old’s death followed a disturbance believed [...]

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[Why don't we just deport these savages?-ed]
A Teenager is being treated in hospital for broken ribs and a punctured lung after he was attacked by a gang of Somalians in Bristol.Seventeen-year-old Andrew Webber, of Brislington, was walking back from the Avonmeads leisure park with friends on Tuesday night when he was surrounded by more than [...]

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[Maybe they could invite Ian Paisley and his friends to liven things up-ed]

For decades, smartly dressed veterans and servicemen and women in Wood Green, north London, have proudly packed their parish church for the traditional Remembrance Sunday service.
But this year there will be no such solemn ceremony at St Michael’s - because the vicar [...]

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BBC bosses have been left red-faced after an Iraqi cameraman they flew to the UK for a training course claimed asylum when he got here.
Samir Ghazi was brought over to Britain for the three week course by the corporation this summer and was supposed to continue filming in Baghdad.
But instead the 43-year-old surprised [...]

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A 70-year-old former British soldier who fought guerillas in Aden and Triad gangs in Hong Kong showed four muggers how it doesn’t pay to mess with the SAS.
Douglas O’Dell is past retirement age but the moves he learned as a volunteer in Britain’s toughest regiment half-a-century ago stood him in good stead when he [...]

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Scotland Yard has spent almost £450 million on promoting ‘equality and diversity’ in the past three years. In the past year alone £187 million - six per cent of the Met budget - went on ‘equalities-related expenditure’.
This included recruitment, training and research within minority communities, as well as crime fighting and prevention.
It covered [...]

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Three men have been jailed for five years each for a racially-motivated nail bomb attack on a block of flats housing Portuguese and Polish workers.
The attack started a fire in the landing of the Old Brewery in Watton, near Thetford, Norfolk, in August 2005.
At Norwich Crown Court Paul Lusher, Sinclair Maynard and Daniel [...]

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Convicted offenders who are unemployed should be given longer community sentences, according to the chairman of the influential home affairs committee.
John Denham claimed offenders who had a job or cared for family members should receive shorter sentences.
This would be fairer because “the impact is clearly much heavier on someone who is already busy [...]

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Plans to force new faith schools in England to select more pupils from other religions are to be scrapped.
A voluntary agreement has been reached instead, Education Secretary Alan Johnson says.
The Catholic Church had joined the Church of England in agreeing that up to 25% of places should go to pupils from another faith [...]

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Note how the welcome sign does not have a welcome in Gaelic!

http://www.uup.org/policy_society.htm

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[When in doubt-cry racism!-ed]

British actor Colin Salmon has accused the production company behind James Bond of racism, after reports he was snubbed for the role of the debonair super agent because he is black
Salmon — who appeared in Die Another Day as spy Charles Robinson — had been rumoured to replace Pierce Brosnan as 007 [...]

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Foreign lorry drivers are putting lives at risk by overworking, using vehicles with serious faults and overloading their trucks, a police chief has said.
Chief Superintendent Geraint Anwyl told BBC One’s Real Story that EU expansion had made the situation worse.
Penalties against the offending haulage companies were not tough enough because of the huge [...]

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An internal British Broadcasting Corporation memo reveals senior figures admitted the national news agency was guilty of promoting left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.
News of the memo, reported by British media, comes as the BBC continues to struggle against claims of biased reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and distorted coverage of the global fight against [...]

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[What about the thousands of racist Turks, Kurds, Soimalias who hate white people who come here?-ed]
Thousands of white immigrants from eastern Europe are deeply racist, the head of the race relations watchdog has warned.
Speaking about the tensions in British communities, Trevor Phillips said many arrivals from former Soviet countries displayed prejudice against black people. [...]

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Prosecutors have decided not to charge Britain’s most well known Muslim over comments he made in a radio interview where he said homosexuality is immoral and promotes the spread of disease.
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, lashed out in the BBC interview about Civil Partnerships which became legal in the [...]

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The Muslim Council of Britain has rejected talks with gay organisations and rebuffed proposals to tackle homophobia within the Muslim community.
Inayat Bunglawala, media spokesperson for the MCB, has disowned the MCB’s advisor on equality issues, Muhammed Aziz, who had previously announced a policy to combat homophobia amongst Muslims and endorsed dialogue with gay groups.
Aziz made [...]

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Manchester’s leading Imam has confirmed that he thinks the execution of sexually active gay men is justified. Mr. Arshad Misbahi, who is based at the Manchester Central Mosque, confirmed his views in a conversation to Dr John Casson, a local psychotherapist.
Dr Casson said: “I asked him if the execution of gay Muslims in Iran and [...]

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