Menu Content/Inhalt
Home

Time to get involved
Support OBV

-----------------------------

OBV News magazine
OBV News Letter

-----------------------------

Who runs my city

 
Image
 
The search for the UK’s Barack Obama
With Tre Azam, The Apprentice star

Thursday July 17 at 1.30pm
At The Barton Hill Settlement
43 Ducie Road, Barton Hill, Bristol BS5 0AX
Read more...
 
Looking for the next generation of Bristol leaders

In the historic year of the 40th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King’s assassination and the likely election of the US’s first ever Black President, Operation Black Vote (OBV) is championing the cause of Black and other Minority Ethnic (BME) engagement in politics.

Read more...
 
Latest News - 04 July 2008

Muslims feel like 'Jews of Europe'
Britain's first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying...

The whole community must be involved in fighting violence
As public concern about the tragic increases in knife crime gathers pace it is important that we do not seek to tackle...

Ailing Brown turns to Campbell and Mandelson
Gordon Brown has turned to key allies of Tony Blair, including his former communications director Alastair Campbell, for advice...

Tory front bench's prominent donors named in list
The names of dozens of prominent donors and companies who are giving hundreds of thousands of pounds to fund the Tory frontbench team...

MPs vote to keep controversial expenses system
Parliament’s reputation took another battering yesterday when MPs threw out plans to overhaul their expenses, insisting...

Viacom lawsuit: Google told to hand over all YouTube user details
The internet giant Google is being forced to hand over the personal information of every person who has ever watched a video...

National Audit Office rejects Treasury accounts
Britain’s spending watchdog is refusing to approve the Treasury’s accounts, compounding a miserable year for Alistair Darling...

'They brought us in some peace'
Short of illicit substances, music is the most effective anaesthetic to the pain of long or short-term incarceration...

Obama Fuels Pullout Debate With Remarks
Senator Barack Obama said Thursday that he might “refine” his policies for Iraq after meeting with military commanders there later this summer...

This byelection could be the most important ever
Every generation or so, the city of Glasgow seems fated to hold a parliamentary byelection that shapes the politics of the era. In the 1960s...

Oil falls below $145
Oil dropped below $145 a barrel on Friday, but was still within sight of record highs reached in the previous session when...

Hitchens's tortured explanation
Thomas Harrison called it the "water treatment". On May 21, 1951, Lt Col Harrison's F-80 jet fighter was shot down over North Korea...

 
Chuka Umunna and Minister Harriet Harman congratulates Bishop John Francis

Chuka Umunna

Chuka Umunna, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Streatham and Cabinet Minister Harriet Harman MP visited Ruach Ministries on Sunday and addressed the Church's 3,000 strong congregation.

Read more...
 
Cultural competency essential for success of Health Ministers plans for 3,000 new therapists

Ivan Lewis MP

Health minister, Ivan Lewis announcement that talking therapies will be rolled out in 32 Primary Care Trusts around the UK have come with a warning from experts who say that they will do little to address the stark inequalities within mental health services unless therapists are given cultural competency training.

Read more...
 
Black Britons Windrush arrival celebrated with new Imperial War Museum exhibition

Dianne Abbott MP, opened the 'From War to Windrush' exhibition at the Imperial War Museum today to mark the 60th anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush from the West Indies.

Read more...
 
Compass pioneers ‘How to live in the 21st Century’

Harriet Harman MP

Four Cabinet Ministers will join leading pressure group Compass to set a national debate on Britain’s future at a huge progressive gathering to discuss how to create a more equal society.

Read more...
 

Latest Events

Sat, Jul 5th, 2008, @5:00pm- 8:00pm
Come and watch the Partisan Defence Committee DVD
Mon, Jul 7th, 2008, @10:00am- 5:00pm
Nelson Mandela in 1960s London

 

 Article of the week:
Political fútbol

------------------------

Journal of the week:

John Simpson