Tag Archives: Black Lives Matter

Your Party meeting shows a movement in need of direction

Posted on August 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

What last night’s first meeting in Croydon of the new Your Party showed is that it has a long way to go before it can even begin to field election candidates and harness the energy of its near-1million supporters, reports … Continue reading →

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Croydon police investigated over black man’s death in custody

Posted on September 8, 2023 by insidecroydon

This latest probe by the watchdog follows the misconduct hearing announced earlier this week for two other Met officers over the arrest and hand-cuffing last year of an innocent black schoolboy Two Croydon police officers are under criminal investigation for … Continue reading →

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Social media black-out is ‘start of a fightback’ says Townsend

Posted on April 30, 2021 by insidecroydon

Crystal Palace’s Andros Townsend says that the social media boycott by English football which begins this afternoon is just the start of a fightback against online abuse and discrimination. Townsend, Palace and the majority of clubs in the country will … Continue reading →

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‘I’ll paint Kate Moss. Just pay me this time,’ says artist

Posted on June 18, 2020 by insidecroydon

In the latest twist to the saga surrounding the town centre’s Churchill mural, the artist who painted it claims he was never paid by the council-backed gallery who commissioned him. By KEN TOWL David Hollier, the artist who painted the … Continue reading →

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It is time for some difficult conversations, not virtue signalling

Posted on June 15, 2020 by insidecroydon

KEN TOWL on a tale of two (or is it three? Or four?) online petitions “What, another one?” is my default reaction these days to online petitions. There seem to be more of them than ever, perhaps a symptom of … Continue reading →

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Scott called out over ‘gentrification’ of housing in Croydon

Posted on June 15, 2020 by insidecroydon

JANE NICHOLL reports on how Black Lives Matter activists responded to councillors’ ‘meaningless words’ at a community-led event at Park Hill Croydon Council’s failing housing policies cannot escape criticism, even at a Black Lives Matter protest which some leading Labour … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s biggest slave owner was ancestor of the Queen

Posted on June 9, 2020 by insidecroydon

It’s not just in Bristol that there are memorials to slave-owners. Even in a Sanderstead churchyard, there can be found links to the slave trade, and to the modern royal family, as STEPHANIE OFFER discovered The hauling down and dunking … Continue reading →

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Van Aanholt takes easy lead as Hopkins scores more own goals

Posted on June 5, 2020 by insidecroydon

“Twitter spats” are rarely worth reporting on, but Palace defender Patrick van Aanholt last night won widespread praise across social media when he delivered some withering rebukes to that living and breathing example of “white privilege”, the toxic Katie Hopkins. … Continue reading →

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