Very pleased that tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm on LBC I’ll be joined by Suresh Grover the founder of the anti-racist and human rights organisation The Monitoring Group and Series Producer of Channel 4’s documentary series #Defiance Anoop Pandhal

Do send me your questions for them.

Thank you to MeeraSyal💙 Krishnan Guru-Murthy Bobby Seagull Suresh Grover & Balraj Purewal for supporting #Defiance Channel 4

Now @channel4 another chance to see India 1947: Partition in Colour

“There was no lessons for us to learn … it happened to us” amazing Pritpal giving us such a thoughtful, reflective ending to #Defiance - a huge thank you to all our wonderful contributors - “here to stay here to fight”

What an iconic moment - the precedent set for the idea that self defence is no offence - because of the #Bradford12 #Defiance @channel4

“We were just scared of being burnt alive “ .. after the arson attack on Parveen Khan’s home, Zubia’s family dragged their mattresses downstairs and slept on the floor @channel4 #Defiance

Now on #Defiance the quite extraordinary story of the #Bradford12 @channel4

“It was a directed unified message - we were the protectors of Southall” Balraj Purewal on the fightback at Hambrough tavern in #Southall against skinheads #Defiance @channel4

“Parveen Khan holding her baby at the window - that’s the image I had”
Heartbreaking from Zubia Darr about the death of her friends in a house fire - new testimony in #Defiance suggests it was part of a wave of largely unreported arson attacks aimed at Asians @channel4

Incredible that the wave of fires at Asian people’s homes in Walthamstow and elsewhere has been so little reported. The #Defiance team unearthed little seen archive and witnesses for our @channel4 series - and the stories are so disturbing

“We are young, we are Black, but we will not be kicked to death” the legend Suresh Grover #Defiance

Thanks to everyone who’s engaged with our Asian stories of resistance this week - stay with us for the final emotional episode of #Defiance tonight 10pm @channel4
#Walthamstow fires - #Southall fightback - the epic #Bradford12

The devastating story of Parveen Khan’s family killed in a house fire written about by vikram dodd in The Guardian this week - sparked by #Defiance episode 3 tonight 10pm @channel4

“It wasn't just the Bradford 12 on trial, it was the whole community… That's why it was important for us to be there to chant those slogans: Self Defence is No Offence.”

Bracing myself for the final episode of #Defiance - it’s been an emotional watch!

Why this is not just history, but a story of now #Defiance #Southall #BlairPeach

“It’s a good thing that there’s one less imported alien Marxist agitator causing trouble in this country … he was racial chaos anyhow” - an unbelievable cocktail of words emanating from the mouth of National Front’s Martin Webster after death of #BlairPeach #Southall #Defiance

“You had to have a white witness to give it some credibility “ Balraj Purewal explaining how the justice system looked to him after the #Southall protest and the death of #BlairPeach #Defiance @channel4

Our contributor Avtar Brah describes movingly how Blair Peach, killed in the Southall protest, was lain in his coffin in the Dominion cinema - 8000 people filed past to pay respects 12 June 1979 #Defiance

“The best thing to do when you get any extremist group is to ignore them”… Margaret Thatcher opining on the Southall protests, a few days before being elected Prime Minister #Defiance