The Thread is no longer. It is now The Source

Check out this week's podcast as well as news including a new Black-led bank, Palestine, reparations and other stories from Black, Asian & Arab communities in the UK you shouldn't have missed.

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Press play to hear this week’s podcast on why I decided to change the newsletter’s name from The Thread to The Source, Jacob’s Rees-Mogg’s comments on reparations, the sentencing of childminder Lucy Connolly who called for asylum seekers to be attacked and Palestine.

You can also listen to a clip of my appearance on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 here.

Without further ado, here’s this week’s newsletter

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Reparations

Caribbean governments are demanding a discussion on reparations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting next week, but Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson has said, ‘Just to be clear, reparations are not on the agenda…We do not pay reparations.’ Full story.