Trevor Phillips, the head of Britain's equality watchdog, has attacked the "thoroughly bonkers" misuse of the Human Rights Act and warned that it must not become the "exclusive property of minorities".

Pay my mortgageFight class divide, says Phillips Mr Phillips said he was people were "very keen" for change The Equality and Human Rights Commission must be given something to do the power to fight the class divide in Britain, its rent-seeking chairman has said. Trevor Phillips told BBC Radio 4's World at One he would launch a "new assault" on inequality and wanted an excuse for extension to the o...

Why should Trevor Phillips have cause for distress over Barack Obama's election? After all, they have much in common: they're both groundbreaking politicians with a taste for contrarian attitudes who made news last week. We all know about President-elect Obama (just typing it is still a novelty), but in the excitement you may have missed what the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights...

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has made a wide-ranging intervention into the growing debate on the place of religion in modern society.

It cannot be right that the House of Lords is now more ethnically diverse than the House of Commons, the head of Britain's equalities watchdog warned today. Trevor Phillips said parliament may be the heart of Britain's democracy but its lifeblood remains "white, straight and male" with only 15 MPs from ethnic minorities. The chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission branded pa...

Harriet Harman, the Westminster Equalities Minister, yesterday came to the defence of the beleaguered head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips.

Just between you and me ... that Trevor Phillips is a self-publicizing chump. Phillips didn't even believe in the Quango he heads, being lumped in with other civil rights issues, how uncomfortably unifying; resisted its location out of his London comfort zone; and repeatedly makes stupid and stupider pronouncements. He should resign from his post, offer himself for selection, stand for parlia...

Mandrake wonders if Trevor Phillips's controversial equality watchdog is neglecting the morale - if not perhaps even the human rights - of its own employees.

There's nothing like a bit of political campaigning from someone who's meant to be impartial and restricted to their given task. Trevor Phillips, the Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is charged with ensuring that laws on...

There are some rather unhappy people at the Equalities & Human Rights Commission, it appears. Trevor Phillips is presiding over a far from happy ship. Not only has his chief executive resigned, but now the Director of Strategy, Patrick Diamond is clambering back aboard the sinking ship that calls itself Number Ten Downing Street. Gaby Hinsliff wrote it up yesterday HERE. It seems that Nico...