Circumcising Children
It was more than 30 years ago, but Chetin Mercan still winces when he recalls the day he was circumcised. "It was the summer holidays and I was eight years …
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Pauline Pearce- the Hackney Heroine
Pauline Pearce did not know she was being filmed when she spoke out against the rioters running amok in her Hackney neighbourhood. Standing in the darkness, on a debris-strewn pavement in front of graffiti that read 'Fuck Cameroon', she seemed a lone voice of conscience amid the carnage. …
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taking husband’s surname
On the evening of 22 January 2011, the night before she was due to give birth, Sareena Ali suddenly announced to her husband, Usman Javed, that she wanted to go … Manjula Shah and her husband ran a newsagent's in Thornton Heath, Croydon, for 12 years – rising every day at 4am to ensure that local children did not steal the papers from the pavement then spending 12 hours behind the till. On the morning of 15 … The young black comedian fixes Jim Davidson with a contemptuous glare. "I grew up feeling inadequate because of your comedy," he says. "You old-school guys got laughs from feeding people's prejudices." Davidson, chunkier than we remember him, bespectacled and grey-haired, listens on as … Outside Joe Randazzo's office is a noticeboard that is covered with letters from readers to
The class of 2009 left university knowing they were facing the toughest battle for jobs in a generation. The outlook for … I don't like dogs. I find them frightening and unpredictable; I don't like their panting, drooling ways and I feel uncomfortable not being able to tell which dog …
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