The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.

Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student population, I began to immerse myself in the ways social, legal and political forces contribute to human rights and freedoms.

Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.

I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.

I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.

People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going back to an ethnocentric idea of what being English means.

We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential.

I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.

I was obsessed with Nelson Mandela. I had big posters of him in my bedroom and he became my proxy father figure. He was in jail, so I could project all sorts of things about what he would say to me.

As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London and the U.K.

Like many black men growing up in London, I have been stopped and searched by several policemen. I was 12 years old when I was first groped and frisked by police for walking down the road. It terrified me so much I wet myself.

I knew what it was to be poor... my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.

Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality and fairness.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate - and sensible - state should concern itself with.

From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

We are the reformers. Reform ends if we leave, not just for us but also our friends in Europe who want our voice heard in Europe.