"We don't get anywhere by being timid," Lord Ouseley complained. So it would be ridiculous for us, the equalities commission, to say, 'Oh, we're only interested in race and gender and disability. If I have something to say," he says slowly, grinning, "I do want it to be heard. All I would say is: it's not an automatic option. [2], Mark Trevor Phillips was born in Islington, London, the youngest of ten children. Exactly how she would have wanted it. According to our records, Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary is possibly single. Well, he might look at Barack Obama, and consider the comments he has made in the past about the obstacles facing most black candidates in this country, and conclude that his profile and credentials confer a responsibility on him to run for office. "There are other factors that could be taken into account by universities. Two daughters from his first marriage to Asha Bhownagary, a child psychologist. [10], As a student at Imperial he became president of its students' union. [4][5], Phillips worked initially as a researcher for London Weekend Television (LWT), before being promoted to head of current affairs in 1992, remaining in the post until 1994. We are here to do something which I think is profoundly important to this society. He must also resist at all cost the merging of the CRE into a single equalities body that will invariably dilute the focus of race. With his big hair and beard, he presented an image of Black Panther supremacy combined with socialism. Sushila had written for publications including the Sunday Times after graduating with a first class honours degree in English literature from York University in 2008. Sushila went to Westminster at the age of 16 to study French, history, English and economics. Phillips joined the Labour Party in London in 1996. If class is afforded the permanent legal status afforded to race or gender, the political implications will be profound. "I understand the difficulties that universities face when accepting or rejecting students without an interview," she said. Mr Phillips said that Bristol's admissions policy would discriminate against many black and Asian families who send their children to private school to escape racism within the state system. Now that's what I think this next stage is about. [50] Following Obama's election, in an interview for The Times on 8 November 2008,[51] Phillips said that he believed it would be impossible for a black candidate in the United Kingdom to rise to the top in politics because of institutional racism within the Labour Party, saying: If Barack Obama had lived here I would be very surprised if even somebody as brilliant as him would have been able to break through the institutional stranglehold that there is on power within the Labour party. "Hip-hop stars and so forth - what are they? [7] Phillips was invited to analyse and interpret the survey[clarification needed] for the documentary What British Muslims Really Think aired April 2016, which followed similar themes to Things We Won't Say About Race (That Are True) relating to exploring racial truths through statistics. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. I understand what it is to hear that she may not live long enough to go to university. If his tenure were to be judged on his record for provoking both left and right alike, it would have to be ruled an outstanding success. It is only days before he gives evidence tomorrow to the Speaker's conference committee, and there is nothing remotely timid about the proposals he will be advocating. Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary was previously married to Trevor Phillips (1981). [citation needed], In 1996 Phillips initiated and sat on the Runnymede Trust's Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, whose report Islamophobia: a challenge for us all reviewed the state of anti-Muslim prejudice in the UK. Phillips met his former wife, a child psychologist, as a student, and the couple have two grown-up daughters, Sushila and Holly. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. [23], In early June 2008 Phillips as EHRC head said that he "remain[ed] unpersuaded that the government has yet provided compelling evidence for what our legal advice shows would be an effective suspension of some human rights". But others might consider the notion of economic equality as an inalienable human right - analogous to gender or racial equality - absurd if not anti-democratic. So he is thinking about it? 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He presented Trevor Phillips on Sunday, a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, from 2021 to 2022. So what? He was born in London, in 1953, to Guyanese parents, the last of seven children. Well, possibly because he represents the interests of people who are at the mercy of garages in Northampton doing things that are illegal? The exemplars offered to black teenage boys in school are part of the problem, Phillips told Teachers' TV News yesterday. " The daughter of the anti-racism campaigner and broadcaster Trevor Phillips has died after a 22-year battle with anorexia. If I go into a shop, they know I've come from England because I start looking for the queue. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Male Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients, Officers of the Order of the British Empire List II. They don't just need footballers or musicians, they need, well, people like Trevor Phillips. Mr Phillips who has recently written about his daughters struggles with the eating disorder was present for Sushilas last hours. He presented Trevor Phillips on Sunday, a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, from 2021 to 2022. "[44] He was cleared of contempt of Parliament and the House of Lords recommended that new and clearer guidance about the conduct of witnesses to Select Committees be issued. When do the clocks change in 2023? He was seen as the preferred choice of Downing Street and the home secretary, David Blunkett, who announced his appointment yesterday. My point is that our business is not to be going round poking our nose into every particular event or case, but to raise the expectations of all of the industries so that what they expect from their own people is greater than they used to be.". Phillips met his former wife, a child psychologist, as a student, and the couple have two grown-up daughters, Sushila and Holly. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. [11] Following this and other controversies, including his decision to send his children to a private school, Phillips withdrew from the race a few months later and was not on the final shortlist of candidates. Shouldn't these circumstances count as well?" After retirement, he continued to chair numerous corporate and social boards. (He failed, in part because of his lack of a track record as an activist, in part because he had sent his two daughters to an independent school.) There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Officially, his current post is apolitical, and some of the confusion surrounding his intentions has probably arisen from the peculiar semantics which complicate any debate about equality. The romantic outing comes just a few months after the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) publicly admitted splitting from his . [28] Simon Woolley, founder of Operation Black Vote, said the documentary pandered to prejudice, treated Muslims as a monolithic group and gave "no historical or social/political context". The best parallel I found is that Samuel Johnson wrote a very famous sermon; what he was saying was that there are some things the law can't deal with directly, because what they consist of are 1,000 small acts of unkindness. "I can't remember what the topic was, but they were having a phone-in. [8][9], From 2021 to 2022, Phillips covered for Sophy Ridge's Sky News Sunday morning programme Sophy Ridge on Sunday whilst she was on maternity leave. In a Times interview in April 2004, Phillips said the government should stop supporting multiculturalism, claiming it was out of date and legitimised "separateness" between communities, and instead should "assert a core of Britishness". He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. Education: Queen's College, Georgetown, Guyana; Imperial College, London (BSc, ARCS), Career: President, National Union of Students, 1978-80; London Weekend Television: researcher, 1980-81; producer, Black on Black, The Making of Britain, 1981-86; reporter, This Week, Thames TV, 1986-87; London Weekend Television: editor, London Programme, 1987-92; head, current affairs, 1992-94; presenter: London Programme, 1987-2000; Crosstalk, 1994-2000; The Material World, 1998-2000. I do know what it feels like to have to pin your teenage child to the floor of a speeding car to prevent her throwing herself out of the door, he wrote. In the coming months the equalities bill will pass through parliament, seeking to consolidate more than 100 existing acts of anti-discrimination legislation into a coherent philosophy of equality for the 21st century. Mr Phillips, 49, who was born in London to parents from Guyana, is a former president of the National Union of Students who has spent most of his career in television, rising to become head of current affairs at LWT. Mr Phillips takes over as the CRE assumes tough new powers to tackle racism under the Race Relations Amendment Act, which was passed in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. "But nobody here in this organisation is addicted to rushing around getting into other people's business. The independent sector fears that the Government's new "access regulator" - the watchdog that will police admissions policies - will put even more pressure on top universities to admit more working-class applicants. "We're not Ofquote," Phillips retorts. [24] Phillips was responding to the growing uproar surrounding proposals to amend counter-terrorism legislation to permit 42 days' detention without charge. [citation needed]. ", Presumably, I suggest, this is why phone-in callers think he'll come round and have them locked up. Their longest marriage has been 28 years to Asha Bhownagary. She previously studied at North London Collegiate school, another leading independent school. Phillips entered public life as a student radical. That's our job. His appointment is initially for four years, by the end of which he could be in line to head the new equality commission the government plans to forge from the CRE, equal opportunities commission and disability rights commission. He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). His long-standing friendship with Peter Mandelson (who worked with Phillips at LWT and was best man at his first wedding) brought him close to the New Labour project and he became friendly with Tony Blair. "They think that we're just there to catch them out. But we won. Eternally compassionate in the face of unspeakable suffering, grateful for the small things every day the sun on her face and a smile from a stranger, she had the most wicked sense of humour, and she was committed to fighting for justice for people suffering with mental illness.. Its rejection of Sushila has incensed Trevor Phillips, who numbers many Cabinet ministers among his friends and whose job as head of the CRE involves speaking out against discrimination. Though I have no disagreement with greater access, I would have hoped that universities and the Government would have a slightly more sophisticated policy than simply 'blacklisting' independent schools. 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