Trevor Phillips, the broadcaster and London assembly chairman, is to be the new chairman of the commission for racial equality. Soon afterwards, he started going out with TV producer Helen Veale, who is 16 years his junior. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.Henry David Thoreau (18171862). "Actually," Phillips himself says, "I don't think most of these things that are supposedly controversial are controversial at all. Sushila said that she wished that universities would look at the whole of a candidate's background. In an article published in 2003,[49] Phillips stated that "from Rome, through Constantinople to Venice and London, our (European) nations have a history of peacefully absorbing huge, diverse movements of people, driven by war, famine and persecution; and there is no history of long-term ethnic segregation of the kind one can see in any US city". It does at least confine itself to the commission's obvious brief of gender, race and disability. Mr Phillips, 63, was prompted to write about his daughters illness in the Times last month after Meghan Markle recounted her own mental health issues in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. (25 July 2009), ConservativeLiberal Democrat coalition government, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, "Labour lifts Trevor Phillips' suspension for alleged Islamophobia", "John Lewis Partnership Appointment of Partnership Council President", Chemistry Alumni Profiles (including Trevor Phillips), "Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True", "C4 survey and documentary reveals what British muslims really think", "Channel 4's What British Muslims Really Think draws more than 200 complaints", "Trevor Phillips to take on hosting Sophy Ridge on Sunday", "Phillips named as head of race watchdog", "Trevor Phillips dismayed at Labour suspension over Muslim comments". This will be a big year for Phillips, and such moments are both comic and probably quite unnerving. Im a TV producer and Im about to go to work. Operation Black Vote has opposed the creation of the body which Phillips is to chair, saying it will diminish the struggle against racism. He will resign from his chairmanship of the London assembly but is expected to remain involved in his independent company, Pepper Productions. A Speaker's conference (a formal parliamentary inquiry into possible problems with the electoral system), the first in more than 30 years, will address the under-representation in parliament of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people. [citation needed], In 1996 Phillips initiated and sat on the Runnymede Trust's Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, whose report Islamophobia: a challenge for us all reviewed the state of anti-Muslim prejudice in the UK. [15] The suspension was lifted in July 2021. After protests against the Danish cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohamed had sparked protests in the Muslim world, Phillips spoke of the need to "allow people to offend each other". It was only in 1996 that he actually joined the Labour Party, though this was chiefly because he felt that his role in television barred him from holding a party card. "But while they cannot judge a candidate purely on their grades, I think it's important that they should look at every part of the application.". Phillips has made speeches stating that "it was right to ask hard questions about multicultural Britain". He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's Honors List for his services to journalism. Phillips was served as chairman of the Runnymede Trust, a think-tank promoting ethnic equality, from 1993 to 1998, and as a commissioner for a number of other charities. [citation needed]. 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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.". [24] Phillips was responding to the growing uproar surrounding proposals to amend counter-terrorism legislation to permit 42 days' detention without charge. 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. We meet in the glassy offices of the EHRC overlooking the Thames, which are every bit as sleek and polished as Phillips, who always looks as if he has just been dry cleaned. "Yeah, I know, isn't this a frightful thought: Trevor Phillips, class warrior?" He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since 25 July 1981. When he returned to London it was to study chemistry at Imperial College. He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). The action you just performed triggered the security solution. She was one of the wisest, kindest, strongest and funniest people I knew. A passer-by spotted the couple sharing a romantic kiss outside Ms Veales flat before they set off in his X-reg Jaguar. She went peacefully, in her own bed, in our mums arms. Your IP: The commission's former head, Gurbux Singh, resigned after a drunken row with a police officer outside Lord's cricket ground. 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[20], Phillips wrote in May 2016: "Rome may not yet be in flames, but I think I can smell the smouldering whilst we hum to the music of liberal self-delusion" by ignoring the effects of mass immigration to the United Kingdom, explicitly comparing his warning to Enoch Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech. In terms of views on homosexuality, religious devotion, and the role of women, Oborne said "Phillips could have carried out a similar poll of Conservative Party activists, of Roman Catholics, of orthodox Jews, or many other religious minorities and come up with something roughly similar. In a March 2008 article for Prospect magazine, Phillips supported Barack Obama as a potential Presidential candidate, and speculated that if he did become President it might "postpone the arrival of a post-racial America". Trevor Phillips was born on December 31, 1953 in London, England. , updated ", The shadow deputy prime minister, David Davis, said: "It is not a surprise to see yet another one of Tony's cronies in an important and prominent role. And that's why I'm here. Mr Phillips, a New Labour supporter, had been heavily tipped to. 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. Last year he announced that we should focus less on the disadvantages facing ethnic minorities, and worry more about "poor whites". "I can't imagine there will be cries of wild enthusiasm from the floor," he agrees. It is a background from which he has developed some controversial thoughts about the nature of Britishness - a subject on which he was expanding to Teachers TV yesterday. Amanda Perthen, Mail on Sunday Reporter. Asha Phillips is a child psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic. 'Miss Veale and I met and began a relationship in the autumn of last year.. Many thought he was playing into the hands of the right-wing anti-immigration lobby, but he stuck to his line. And if some of those are economic then I think it's our business to say to government, whatever government it is, if you really want gender or race equality it won't be enough to give them remedies against discrimination, you have to remove some of the structural biases in the system.". | He and Tony Blair exchange Christmas cards. Talking from his family's home in Highgate, north London, Mr Phillips said that Bristol's rejection of his daughter - who has an outstanding academic record - had shocked family and friends. Trevor Philips, Who Is a Race Advisor, and His Psychotherapist Wife Whom He Divorced Share the Agony and Pain of Their Eldest Daughter Died After a 22 Year Battle With Anorexia and Thoughts of Suicide - https://t.co/zqhAkTcQA4 pic.twitter.com/la9cw3gPhQ BCNN1 (@bcnn1) April 22, 2021 Who Is Helen Veale Daughter? We are no longer accepting comments on this article. About Contribute Trevor Phillips and Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade(1999), Windrush(1998) and Kiri(2018). His supporters say his comments are evidence of unusually nuanced and imaginative thinking on race. The daughter of the anti-racism campaigner and broadcaster Trevor Phillips has died after a 22-year battle with anorexia. "Not really," he says at first. He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. He is a producer and writer, known for Britain's Slave Trade (1999), Windrush (1998) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). "The point is that the history of our work has rightly been, until the last decade, a history largely about anti-discrimination. Every day, Asha Bhownagary and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years. "Instead, it has concentrated on attacking multiculturalism and a sub-Blunkett agenda of "citizenship" and "integration". At the other end of the spectrum were old leftists such as the late Labour MP Bernie Grant, a neighbour and fellow native of Guyana. They don't just need footballers or musicians, they need, well, people like Trevor Phillips. Officially, his current post is apolitical, and some of the confusion surrounding his intentions has probably arisen from the peculiar semantics which complicate any debate about equality. Trevor Phillips was born on December 31, 1953 in London, England, UK. So what? It is only days before he gives evidence tomorrow to the Speaker's conference committee, and there is nothing remotely timid about the proposals he will be advocating. It was intended, the Mayor said, "to grab alarmist headlines rather than develop meaningful discourse". He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. REVEALED: Pennsylvania cops seized four medical gloves, a silver flashlight and Bryan Kohberger's Under Armour Man dies 'after being shot at home': Police Scotland hunt 'gunman' as they appeal for information. The university's departments have individual targets for state school students. Not that the black community is entirely supportive. Shouldn't these circumstances count as well?" 21:42 GMT 16 May 2009 Mr Phillips met his wife, who is a child psychologist, as a student and the couple have two grown-up daughters. We won a lot of battles. The report helped establish the term "Islamophobia" in UK discourse and it noted that abuse against Muslims was often racialised therefore "a legal term such as religious and racial violence is required". [12], Although Dobson won the nomination, his candidature was harmed by the perception that the contest was "fixed" by the use of an electoral college. Prof Patricia Broadfoot, the pro-vice chancellor of Bristol University, defended the admissions policy that has seen the proportion of private school undergraduates fall from 42 per cent in 1998 to 39 per cent. 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." [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. He produced and presented The London Programme for LWT and has worked on projects for the BBC and Channel 4. 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. He began on a black and Asian affairs show before presenting The London Programme, which touched all the totemic issues of the day - stop and search, racism and the poll tax. [31] A Home Office report subsequently showed child sexual abuse gangs were typically divided on race lines, but more widely that the majority of child sex offenders were made up of white men under the age of 30. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Now, Mr Phillips spends most of his time at Ms Veales 220,000 first-floor flat in Kentish Town and has his own set of keys to the property. He would have been the first non-politician in over half a century to be convicted of contempt of Parliament, but the Lords Committee found that the allegations were "subjective, and that no firm factual evidence is presented in their support; nor are they borne out by the submissions by individual members of the JCHR. And that's why I'm here', Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Photograph: David Levene/Guardian, The G2 interview: Decca Aitkenhead meets Trevor Phillips, he head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was sitting in the back of a taxi, half listening to the radio, when something caught his attention. After pursuing a career in television journalism, where he became close friends with Peter Mandelson, the best man at his wedding, Phillips joined the Labour party in 1996 and was briefly a candidate for the party's mayoral nomination in 1999. In the event, however, the race was a close-run contest and Mr Phillips only narrowly beat Naaz Coker and Zahida Manzoor, two women of Asian origin, who also made the final shortlist of three. Mr Phillips, 55, was seen hand-in-hand with TV producer Helen Veale who is 16 years younger near her flat in North-West London, just a couple of miles from his marital home in Crouch End. Two daughters from his first marriage to Asha Bhownagary, a child psychologist. Trevor Phillips was born on 31 December 1953 in London, England, UK. Griffin has since hit back at Phillips by declaring him a "black racist" in an interview given to Channel 4. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. The radical trio went to Cuba and condemned the Soviet Union as reactionary - though even then, one contemporary recalls, Phillips was a smooth operator who behind the scenes would rather seek "consensus than conflict". "They think that we're just there to catch them out. Why would you want to do something else?" At LWT he worked again with Peter Mandelson, who was best man at his 1981 wedding to Asha Bhownagary, a Parsee child psychologist. He prefers to use terms like "systemic bias" rather than institutional racism - but what exactly does he mean? Too difficult for us. ", "Culturally," he has said, "I'm pretty used to moving from one guise to another.". Sushila Phillips, 36,a freelance journalist, died peacefully in her own bed in our mums arms, according to her sister, Holiday, 33. Labour MP Khalid Mahmood defended Phillips saying the "charges are so outlandish as to bring disrepute on all involved in making them". [40], Phillips became head of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2003, and on its abolition in 2006 was appointed full-time chairman of its successor, the EHRC (initially called the Commission for Equality and Human Rights), which had a broader remit of combating discrimination and promoting equality across other grounds (age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment). Mr Phillips, 49, was born in Islington, north London, and went to school at White Hart Lane school in Tottenham, a grammar that turned comprehensive while he was a pupil. Phillips's supporters discount such attacks. Read more about this topic: Trevor Phillips, Im afraid, sir, that I gave up my belief in goblins, witches, personal devils and werewolves at the age of six.John Colton (18861946), Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. But others might consider the notion of economic equality as an inalienable human right - analogous to gender or racial equality - absurd if not anti-democratic. 09:50 GMT 17 May 2009. They were last married in 2013 to Helen Veale. His father was a British Railways clerk, his mother a seamstress. The exemplars offered to black teenage boys in school are part of the problem, Phillips told Teachers' TV News yesterday. " latest news, feel-good stories, analysis and more, King Charles has evicted Harry and Meghan from only UK home Frogmore Cottage, Police say we must consider missing baby has come to serious harm, Man died after being run over while asleep on strangers driveway, Urgent search for missing baby expands to nature reserve, Parents jailed for killing morbidly obese daughter found covered in maggots, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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. Soon afterwards, he started going out with TV producer Helen Veale, who is 16 years his junior. Phillips was initially reported[by whom?] Managing director, Pepper Productions, 1994- Chairman: Runnymede Trust, 1993-98; Hampstead Theatre, 1993-97; London Arts Board, 1997-2000. Phillips's tenure as EHRC chairman is the longest for any individual in any similar position in the UK. A neighbour of the Phillips family said: We hardly see Trevor so we assumed he had moved out. [23], In early June 2008 Phillips as EHRC head said that he "remain[ed] unpersuaded that the government has yet provided compelling evidence for what our legal advice shows would be an effective suspension of some human rights". Actually I've no interest in that. Our mission is about promoting equality. He was invited to advise the French government and in September 2007 was awarded the Chevalier de la Lgion d'Honneur. He is a Vice President of the RTS. [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. Phillips laughs and shakes his head, more amazed than indignant. A friend of Blair, Jack Straw and Charles Clarke, he chose Peter Mandelson as best man at his 1981 wedding to Asha Bhownagary, a child psychologist. "When we talk about systemic bias, we're talking about something that's rooted in a culture of disregard of other people. Trevor Phillips: the facts Personal Lives in north London, with second wife, TV producer Helen Veale. His is the first external appointment since 1928. The family of nine lived in a two-bedroom house in Finsbury Park until Phillips' parents moved to New York in the 1960s to improve their quality of life. But Phillips regards these conventional categories as only one dimension of his remit - and not even its most important. "[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. So, how much is Trevor Phillips worth at the age of 68 years old? Trevor Phillips was created on Dec 31, 1953 in London, Britain as Tag Trevor Phillips. He spent his childhood partly in British Guiana, and partly in Wood Green, north London; he attended Wood Green County Grammar School (which became Wood Green Comprehensive in 1967) on White Hart Lane, but took his A-levels at Queen's College in Georgetown, Guyana. It's big and broad. These themes avoid conflict with government, and lay the blame with black and Asian people for their own plight.". He has been married to Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary since July 25, 1981. But the core of his networking is among those at the heart of the New Labour project. She said: "Bristol has been dominated by private school students in the past, so in a way we had further to go than other universities. It is about behaviour. French Embassy in London: Mr Trevor Phillips made Chevalier de la Lgion dHonneur. It was now the Muslim community, and Phillips seemed unable to get a handle on the change. Ms Veale, 39, wore a blue dress top with jeans, carried a matching blue bag and had her hair up. Please only use it for a guidance and Trevor Phillips's actual income may vary a lot from the dollar amount shown above. ", In the past, Phillips has accused lawyers of "mischievously hijacking" the Human Rights Act, but isn't he opening himself to the charge of hijacking the EHRC for more politically mischievous ends than it was conceived? Many are concerned that Phillips, and the Government, is following an agenda which seeks to blame black communities instead of tackling institutional racism. Last week it was announced that universities that accepted more low-achieving and deprived students would be rewarded with an extra 200 million in grants. Amanda Perthen, Mail on Sunday Reporter The former left-wing firebrand who once listed "mischief" among his recreations in Who's Who counts among his friends individuals who stretch from the far left to the demagogic right. Official Sites. "We don't get anywhere by being timid," Lord Ouseley complained. Trevor Phillips and his ex-wife Asha pictured together at the 1997 Laurence Olivier Awards. [citation needed]. Family (1) Spouse 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. "Well, I dare any government to say to the electorate, 'We're going to come to power on a programme that says we will stop the momentum towards more equality, more participation, more influence for people from ethnic minorities or for women.' ", Phillips also wants parties to be allowed to introduce all-ethnic minority shortlists forCommons candidates, and to have their proposed appointments to the Lords scrutinised for their impact on the diversity of the upper chamber. So he is thinking about it? Phillips joined the Labour Party in London in 1996. His appointment is initially for four years, by the end of which he could be in line to head the new equality commission the government plans to forge from the CRE, equal opportunities commission and disability rights commission. It was as a student that he met his wife, Asha Bhownagary, from whom he is separated. The daughter of the anti-racism campaigner and broadcaster Trevor Phillips has died after a 22-year battle with anorexia. Asha Bhownagary. It's a casual inquiry - but the answer he gives is intriguing. Phillips will call for the introduction of fixed terms for MPs, forcing them to step down after a maximum of four parliaments. Sushila Phillips, 18, whose father, Trevor, is a prominent member of the Labour Party and who chaired the London Assembly until his recent appointment, believes that she was rejected by Bristol because she attends Westminster School, one of Britain's most prestigious independent schools, which charges day pupils fees of 12,000. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. [45] However, he was told his behaviour was "inappropriate and ill-advised". I dare any politician to say that.". It is a story he may come to regret telling. Holiday said she would seek to continue her sisters efforts to help those affected by mental health issues in every way I can. Black figures such as the MP Diane Abbott have accused Phillips of being too close to the Government. Other Works He applied for a job as a researcher at London Weekend Television, where he was interviewed by John Birt. According to our records, Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary is possibly single. "A large number of parents from ethnic minorities, especially Asian families, go into debt to send their children to independent schools because they believe that it will help their children escape the disadvantage that they might otherwise face in the state system. 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". Get your need-to-know Performance & security by Cloudflare. 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