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A bookmaker has been forced to apologise after it posted a picture of a man blacked-up as Labour MP  Diane Abbott  on social media. Star Sports Bookmakers posted the picture on Twitter on Friday evening showing a man wearing blackface at a darts competition and holding up a sign reading “190” – lampooning the shadow home secretary for her grasp of numbers. The maximum score off three darts is 180. Earlier this year it was revealed that Abbott   received almost half of all abusive tweets sent to female MPs in the run up to the General Election. In 2015 the Guardian ran an article explaining why blackfacing is wrong. Its a simple explanation why its wrong simple enough for children to understand, no doubt right wing racists will make some excuse up about it.  The article explained that apparently to “raise awareness” of African women and their “secluded cultures”, a Hungarian journalist  photoshopped her own face  onto portraits of black women. But her project, poste

SNP  rising star Mhairi Black today revealed the excruciating moment that Alex Salmond told her to get a makeover. Ms Black said the awkward moment came shortly after she became the youngest MP in centuries at the 2015 General Election. Mr Salmond apparently told the then 20-year-old he had previously had the same conversation with  Nicola Sturgeon  before her meteoric rise through the ranks to succeed him as SNP leader and First Minister. SNP rising star Mhairi Black has revealed the excruciating moment that Alex Salmond tried to give her fashion advice +3 Ms Black said the awkward moment with Mr Salmond came shortly after she became the youngest MP in centuries at the 2015 General Election Ms Black – who is the SNP’s work and pensions spokeswoman in Westminster – revealed the encounter to  Holyrood  magazine. She said: ‘It was fine, really, he was just giving me tips here and there and then he says, ”I’m sure Taz will take you out to go shopping or somet

GrenfellTower housed 600 residents 71 dead? 100 alive? So where are the missing  400+? For 6 months we've asked locals? Their voices and videos are astonishing... Grenfell tower Org ( https://t.co/T0LSJeuFXr ) says: 'we've been threatened not to release the truth!' #Grenfell💚 #JusticeForGrenfell   https://t.co/xB3AQecJzf What exactly have the Tory party got to hide? 

A bookmaker has been forced to apologise after it posted a picture of a man blacked-up as Labour MP  Diane Abbott  on social media. Star Sports Bookmakers posted the picture on Twitter on Friday evening showing a man wearing blackface at a darts competition and holding up a sign reading “190” – lampooning the shadow home secretary for her grasp of numbers. The maximum score off three darts is 180. Earlier this year it was revealed that Abbott   received almost half of all abusive tweets sent to female MPs in the run up to the General Election. The  report from Amnesty International also found that , excluding the shadow home secretary, black and Asian women MPs received 35% more abusive tweets than their white counterparts. Abbott received 10 times more abuse than any other woman MP in the run-up to the General Election and eight times more abuse than any other woman MP during the entire period of analysis. Out of the 140,057 tweets mentioning @HackneyAbbott, 8,121 tw