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. "Lenin said if you want to create change, you first have to convince people that where we are now is untenable. Nobody would ever mistake Phillips for a communist, but he has always been loosely on the left. Amanda Perthen, Mail on Sunday Reporter If that was as self evidently true as he claimed, I ask, why wouldn't they be doing it anyway? [citation needed]. At LWT he worked again with Peter Mandelson, who was best man at his 1981 wedding to Asha Bhownagary, a Parsee child psychologist. [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. Phillips was appointed head of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2003 and was the chairman of its successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), from 2007 to 2012. In The Spectator, political commentator Douglas Murray praised Phillips's ability to "break taboos which too many liberals in the UK are keen to continue enforcing", calling Islamophobia a "fraudulent concept", while his colleague James Delingpole said it was a "brave and honest programme", and the British public knew "large numbers of Muslims don't want to integrate, that their views aren't remotely enlightened". Please only use it for a guidance and Trevor Phillips's actual income may vary a lot from the dollar amount shown above. So we took the fattest book we had in the house, and I watched my first football match standing on a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin." He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). 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Your IP: T revor Phillips' daughter has tragically died after a 22-year battle with anorexia. Phillips later developed his views and in 2016, as part of his Channel 4 documentary What British Muslims Really Think, he said that the commission had correctly recognised the existence of incidents of abuse against British Muslims "but we got almost everything else wrong". Phillips joined the Labour Party in London in 1996. Sushila said that she wished that universities would look at the whole of a candidate's background. Mr Phillips, a New Labour supporter whose wife Asha Bhownagary is of Indian descent, said that he was speaking in a personal capacity but believed that universities should take much more into account than merely a child's schooling. Phillips met his former wife, a child psychologist, as a student, and the couple have two grown-up daughters, Sushila and Holly. ", Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Phone-in callers may regard Phillips as a member of the thought police, but others object that he's not bold enough, and earlier this month the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality condemned his silence over the Carol Thatcher "golliwog" affair. Announcing the news on Facebook, Holiday wrote: Dear all my beloved sister Sushi passed away on Sunday morning after a 22-year battle with anorexia. He raised the possibility of the EHRC legally testing the legislation by judicial review. But Phillips did not seek to enter politics, like his peers. "Somehow I don't quite see that chiming with anyone who knows me well." Trevor Phillips, the broadcaster and London assembly chairman, is to be the new chairman of the commission for racial equality. Admirers include Andrew Morton, biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn, who owed his first break in television to Phillips. "Mmmm, I understand what you're getting at." By "Among the big race issues of recent years have been the Government's shameful treatment of asylum-seekers; Belmarsh; and control orders. Critics infer from them the counter-intuitive instinct of a professional controversialist. Conservative Member of the House of Lords Sayeeda Warsi responded that "Phillips cannot treat Muslims as a homogenised group when it suits him, then later deny they are racialised". "[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. It's hard to think of anyone else who'd be more effective against any incursions by an incoming Tory government. He returned to England to study at Imperial College London, where he obtained a BSc degree in chemistry in 1975. Asked about his generalisations about British Muslims he said "if you do belong to a groupyou identify with a particular set of values, and you stand for it. (Possibly not, but Trevor Phillips, ambitious politician? They have two grown-up daughters. 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. [47] He expanded on these views in 2016 in a publication by Civitas entitled Race and Faith: the Deafening Silence, in which he said that "squeamishness about addressing diversity and its discontents risks allowing our country to sleepwalk to a catastrophe that will set community against community, endorse sexist aggression, suppress freedom of expression, reverse hard-won civil liberties, and undermine the liberal democracy that has served this country so well for so long."[48]. The 110,000-a-year executive was casually dressed in sports gear. 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He and Tony Blair exchange Christmas cards. He pauses before replying: "Almost nothing. At LWT he worked again with Peter Mandelson, who was best man at his 1981 wedding to Asha Bhownagary, a Parsee child psychologist. Wouldn't a black mayor of London be the perfect John the Baptist to a black leader in Westminster? 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. Phillips's latest edict may have puzzled the public but it was safe to assume that he was on message with No 10. Phillips met his former wife, a child psychologist, as a student, and the couple have two grown-up daughters, Sushila and Holly. "But nobody here in this organisation is addicted to rushing around getting into other people's business. The 110,000-a . Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk. It is about behaviour. His father was a British Railways clerk, his mother a seamstress. As four out of five sitting MPs currently stand for re-election, any other measure to increase diversity of intake would be limited, he reasons, to just one fifth of the house, making progress unacceptably slow. Two daughters from his first marriage to Asha Bhownagary, a child psychologist. "I completely understand what you say, and I accept it. He does so with unfailing grace and good humour, and evident enjoyment, and is open about hoping his term will be extended when it comes up for review this autumn. [16], In 2006, Livingstone accused Phillips of "pandering to the right" so much that he "would soon join the BNP". There is, as Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain puts it, with considerable understatement, "concern about his ability to take an independent approach from the Home Office on key issues to do with minority groups". FAMILY Married to Asha Bhownagary; two daughters, EDUCATION Queen's College boys' school, Georgetown, Guyana; chemistry at Imperial College, London. His programme was temporarily rebranded as Trevor Phillips on Sunday. Under his leadership, six of the body's commissioners departed after expressing concerns about his leadership and probity and others were reported to be considering their position. | We're not a pressure group. [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. She regularly teaches and lectures at home and abroad. The commission's former head, Gurbux Singh, resigned after a drunken row with a police officer outside Lord's cricket ground. With his big hair and beard, he presented an image of Black Panther supremacy combined with socialism. And a caller rang in and said, 'They'll send that. Mr Phillips heads his own production company, Pepper Productions, and Ms Veale owns Outline Productions, which specialises in reality TV shows including the Jade Goody documentary Living With Jade, which covered her dying days. Definitions of Trevor Phillips, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of Trevor Phillips, analogical dictionary of Trevor Phillips (English) 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. He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Equality and Human Rights in London, Greater London, England. 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. But that did not stop him from standing to become Labour's candidate for Mayor of London. But the core of his networking is among those at the heart of the New Labour project. [citation needed], In 2006 Phillips said that Britain's current approach to multiculturalism could cause Britain to "sleepwalk towards segregation". 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.". 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