hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who s shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. now, you might think that the job of the equality and human rights commission was simply to police and implement the law, to ensure equality. but in this era of so called culture wars, debate about equality is, it seems, dividing even the commission itself. my guest this week is the chair of the equality and human rights commission, baroness kishwer falkner. she faced allegations that she had bullied her staff. allies of her insisted that she was the victim of a witch hunt from people who thought she thought the wrong things about the toxic debate about trans women and their place in society. an investigation into that bullying has recently been dropped. baroness falkner was appointed by the conservatives, but she is a former liberal democrat peer. she s also talked of herself being a first generation migran
he came from the same community in the video. both sharply criticising the video. both sharply criticising the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. it is not clear if they are reading from a script, and a statement a spokesman from islamic jihad said that they are prepared to release both hostages for humanitarian and medical reasons but if only what it called appropriate measures were made. those, the latest on the hostage video that has been released. let us take you to tel aviv and show you the live pictures. a large protest going on there, the family of some of the hostages and doctors and health care professionals protesting outside of the international office of the red cross. we have heard from several different israeli voices, the demand that the red cross try to get access to see the hostages that are being held. so the demonstration outside of their offices. of course, 240 hostages currently being held. of course, as every day passes, so the increase in the an
[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. there has to be some discrimination here. there has to be something against asian americans specifically. this case is going to be something more than just about admissions. the notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating
ijust wonder if it continues a theme that i see in so much of your work over a very long time that is, trying to make visible people, communities, things, which are so often invisible to most of us. would that apply to what you ve done here? yes, i think i m trying to do two things, probably more than two things, but i m certainly trying to do two things. i m trying to make a set of artists, who are making really interesting work, more visible, and i m trying to show some of the things that those artists and i have seen, observed, discovered in manchester. rooted here in this place, so what do you think this exhibition tells us about manchester, its past and its present, that might not be familiar to even people who live here? well, i think they might be things that are familiar to people who live here. i see audiences as people who bring their stories to an exhibition. so an exhibition is a place where knowledge is exchanged. but most of the things we re talking about in t
lubaina himid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s a great pleasure to be here at this exhibition, which you have curated. ijust wonder if it continues a theme that i see in so much of your work over a very long time that is, trying to make visible people, communities, things which are so often invisible to most of us. would that apply to what you ve done here? yes, i think i m trying to do two things, probably more than two things, but i m certainly trying to do two things. i m trying to make a set of artists who are making really interesting work more visible. and i m trying to show some of the things that those artists and i have seen, observed, discovered in manchester. rooted here in this place, so what do you think this exhibition tells us about manchester, its past and its present, that might not be familiar to even people who live here? well, i think they might be things that are familiar to people who live here. i see audiences as people who bring their stories to