This is very good, from Kenan Malik, on the perverse nonsense pedalled by the right since the murder of Henry Nowak — but that doesn’t shy away from criticising liberal identity politics either.
So, farewell Sonny Rollins, “Saxophone Colossus” as his album title put it
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Just caught up with last week’s In Our Time on the Levellers. A good listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
“Politicians who have been vocal in criticising “victim culture” are now at the forefront of promoting white victimhood.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/politic...
“The legitimacy of our society depends on ordinary people believing justice is possible. We are no longer sure it is.” Kimia Zabihyan of the Grenfell Next of Kin group in my @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
“The legitimacy of our society depends on ordinary people believing justice is possible. We are no longer sure it is.” Kimia Zabihyan of the Grenfell Next of Kin group in my @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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The political movement during the English Civil War committed to a new idea of equality.
This is a letter from ministers in the May government, promising bereaved families that “the [public] inquiry will not delay the conclusion of the Police inquiry”. Nine years on, it will still be another couple of months before the Met passes evidence files to the CPS.
The Metropolitan police has more than 70 files on the 2017 London disaster, but the Crown Prosecution Service won’t even see them until September
“The paradox of a nation that is far less racist but in which discussions of ideas and policies once confined to the far-right fringes have become mainstream.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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John Merrick
The language around antiracism has degraded notions of equality to the point that it has been adopted by extremists to portray white victimhood
“Politicians who have been vocal in criticising “victim culture” are now at the forefront of promoting white victimhood.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Despite Britons becoming more liberal, extremist ideas such as those espoused by Rupert Lowe’s party have been normalised
