Black and ethnic minority people in Britain face ‘entrenched’ racial inequality in many areas, including education and health. A review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which also looked at employment, housing, pay, and criminal justice, found an ‘alarming picture’. Black graduates earn 23.1% less than white graduates and more ethnic minorities are unemployed. There is a combination of a post-Brexit rise in hate crime and long-term systemic unfairness and racial inequality. The commission recommended that responsibility for a strategy should be brought under one secretary of state, and new targets to improve opportunities and outcomes for ethnic minority communities should be introduced. The Government said black and ethnic minority employment rates had improved. ‘But there is clearly more to do. We are delivering a racial equality programme on employment, university places, apprenticeships, start-up loans and recruitment to police and armed forces.’ a spokeswoman added.

Churches, homeless missions, street pastors, foodbanks and other organisations that want to raise money for new Bibles can use a new crowd-sourcing website designed by the leading Christian publisher of New International Version Bibles, Hodder Faith. The site, givingbibles.com, enables organisations to set up an appeal within minutes and then share it with friends, family and other supporters. Hodder Faith said, ‘GivingBibles.com is a very exciting new venture. With more and more churches and Christian organisations embracing digital methods to communicate with their members and supporters, it's great to be providing such a valuable tool to enable them to provide the Bible resources they need.’ Ian Metcalfe, director of publishing at the group, said, ‘This is the most exciting initiative I have been involved with in my whole time in publishing, and it is amazing to see it come to life’.

Against a backdrop of violence and deaths behind bars, the number of people in prison due to be recalled is up 15% in a year (55 times greater than in 1993) according to the Howard League for Penal Reform. Thousands have been recalled to custody in recent months, putting additional pressure on prisons already struggling to cope with chronic overcrowding, prompting alarming statistics on safety and deep budget cuts. It follows the implementation of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, which enabled the part-privatisation of the probation service and extended licence conditions to people who had served prison sentences of less than 12 months. The Howard League argues that the possibility of recall to prison as a consequence of a breach of licence should be removed. New crimes can be dealt with separately and community penalties can be imposed for breaches of licence that do not amount to a criminal offence. The proposal would ease prison numbers and not require new legislation.

Doctor Antony McRoy, a Christian expert on Islamic extremism, has said Christians have a duty to directly challenge radical Islamist preachers like Anjem Choudhary, who was convicted of terror offences after encouraging people to join Islamic State. There has been a call to review UK anti-terror laws. Mr Choudhary was able to preach radical Islam openly on social media and in public for years before he was finally arrested in 2014. Mr McRoy, who has met Anjem Choudhary and some of the terrorists he has radicalised several times, has said Christians have ‘hidden’ in their churches rather than confronting erroneous teaching. He said, ‘We've got to ask ourselves - how many confronted him personally? How many Christians went up to him to take him on? How many Christians do this to his supporters?’