Zack Polanski's speech at the Together Alliance march "Looking at this crowd I see unity, I see solidarity, I see love. I see we are together" "Look around. Look at the people around you. We are intergenerational. We are white, we are black, we are Asian, we are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, non-faiths. We are community" "And together, we will win" "The tide is turning is turning. There have been dark times. I know people have been scared and have been afraid" "But days like this are here to send a message" "A message to Tommy Robinson. To Nigel Farage. To those appease who appease them" "When we turn up in our hundreds and our thousands, in our hundreds of thousands, we are unstoppable" "We see what's happening in the United States. Children snatched in the streets. People shot in cold blood. We see the war mongering. And the far right see that as their blueprint" "But people in this country have seen Reform UK for who they really are" "They would have dragged us into this illegal and unpopular war with Iran" "And we say today, this is not in our name, this is not our war" "And looking out today I see so many flags and so many slogans" "I know we are here for our migrant communities, for our trans communities, for the Palestinians, our struggles are interconnected, and we stand in solidarity" "There's three things we have to do" "First. We must not give an inch to the Daily Mail, to the rightwing hacks, to the people that spread hate and division. We will defeat you" "Second. We say to Reform UK, we know exactly who you are. You are climate denying, Trump-loving, NHS dismantling, corporate stooges" "Finally. We have to tackle the cost of living. It is time to lower people's bills. It is time to tax billionaires. Nationalise the water companies. Rent controls. Make sure we have the energy cap, so people aren't chosing between heating and eating" "More than anything, today is a march and it does not stop here. This is just the beginning" "Local elections are coming in just a few weeks time. We will defeat hate" "It's time to make hope normal again" *Audience erupts in cheer*

Zack Polanski, "Why do we hear this phrase all the time, unconscious bias?" Professor Keon West, "It's incredibly comfortable" "In the UK it's so hard to have a conversation about racism or sexism" "You won't hear people say: I did that and that was a racist thing to do" "You can go on TV and say you hate seeing a bunch of black and brown faces - like Reform UK's Sarah Pochin - and say you cannot be racist, it must be a misunderstanding" "Similarly men will say all sorts of things but not say that was sexist" "I think that is considered so impolite and so hurtful, to own up to that bias, that we sneak in a word in front of that, 'unconscious', and suddenly we don't have to feel quite so bad" "And everybody has it" "That focus that makes us calmer about the bias, that's really for the benefit of the people feeling bias" "It's not at all for the benefit of the people on the receiving end of the bias"