Toxteth riots 30 years on: Leroy Cooper speaks out
Leroy Cooper will forever be known as the man whose arrest sparked the Toxteth riots. Sat in front of an exhibition of his paintings and collages at Keith’s Wine Bar, in Lark Lane, he sai…
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Chief Constable Jon Murphy - policing the Toxteth Riots
Merseyside Police’s present chief constable, Jon Murphy, was a PC at the time of the Toxteth riots. Here he recalls the role of the Operation Support Division. We were the reserve which w…
Jimi Jagne - memories of the Toxteth riots
Jimi Jagne, now 47, recalls the part he played in the Toxteth riots. I was a 17-year-old youth, Toxteth born and bred, and I was actively engaged in the uprisings. At one point, on the penulti…
Toxteth revisited, 30 years after the riots
In July 1981, some of the most violent rioting ever seen in Britain erupted in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. Thirty years on, the local community is still paying the price. After the second n…
Ethnic Diversity at the Top
Management teams whose commitment to ethical values and ethnic diversity is purely superficial can foster workplace cultures that harm individuals and their organisations, according to new resear…
Leading social housing landlord tackles hate crime
Riverside, one of the UK’s leading social housing and regeneration organisations, has won a Merseyside Police Authority Community Award for its hate crime project. The six month campaign …
We need a more diverse supreme court
All eight appointments to the bench since that of Lady Hale in 2004 have been white men. Just two weeks after it was reported that women in the legal professions are stil…
