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On 25 January 1995, Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace. Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who...
Alongside many others across the UK Millie Cridland from Weymouth took the knee to symbolically call for justice for George Floyd, murdered by police officers in the US, and to make her mark for Black Lives Matter. Millie said 'I had to do it when I heard it was taking...
The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Many of these parties stem from either the legacy of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, or the political views held by either John...
TV historian David Olusoga has thanked former England footballer and schoolmate "tough kid" Paul Gascoigne for stepping in to help when he was subjected to racist abuse as a child. Born in his father's home country of Nigeria, Olusoga moved to his mother's home of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, when he...
Slavery justice: ‘It’s time, Mr Drax.’ In a unique initiative, this week Dorset is linked direct to the Caribbean as campaigners challenge Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, about his ownership of the Drax Hall estate in Barbados. Barbadian MP Trevor Prescod will address a rally on Saturday 17 July outside Drax’s Charborough Park estate in Dorset....
CALL-OUT FROM BRIDPORT Thousands of people have demonstrated across Dorset in support of Black Lives Matter. Please support Saturday's event in Bridport: SATURDAY 13 JUNE, 12 noon, assemble at Mountfield, Millennium Gardens, Bridport. Access from Downes Street, off East Street (car park nearby). Please bring placards, banners - and your voices. Please take care...
The following is a typical cowardly right-wing response to racism and bigotry. Ignore it or defend it. GB Spews are notorious for self-promotion but are being abandoned or ignored by sponsors and the public at large. They offer nothing but ill-informed bigotry from ill-informed bigots. Thankfully, the majority despises...
In response to Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and every other far right racist Tory Brexiteer the perfect response: https://twitter.com/ADFofficial/status/1344754753297932288?s=20 Wonderful. Just wonderful. Douglas James PLEASE SUPPORT US FOR JUST £2 A MONTH https://dorseteye.com/donate/
Made up terms. No depth or context. Just the walking dead making unfathomable noises. This sums up the way racists and the far right largely treat black people when they refuse to accept the abuse, exploitation and cancelling. This very brief discussion bring many of these topics to the fore...
Dear Gareth I'm a Youth Worker in Dorset and a lifelong football fan who has coached a little.   I'm writing to you to let you know that I am proud of you and that you are making a difference!  I am beyond delighted at the team's progress in the Tournament so...