Something has changed. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis as an event is distinct from its all too common predecessors in that its sheer clear cut brutality has altered the debate from a question of whether to hold the…
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is currently dominating headlines and social media feeds following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in the USA. Systemic racism is not a solely American problem and it is…
With the return of the Premier League, it can be easy to forget about the protests in the last few days and zone out by watching Manchester City battle Arsenal for an hour and a half. Watching Aguero score a…
It is dismaying but perhaps not surprising that Boris Johnson has decided to characterise Black Lives Matter protesters as extremists. It is equally dismaying that he has roundly condemned the threats to Churchill’s statue as a result of the protests. He has…
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s horrifying murder at the hands of several US policemen, a widespread sense of righteous anger burned through the minds of many and reinvigorated debates over racism at the level of politics, culture, and individual…
Outrage, grief and fury. Even these words do not suffice in describing the political climate in America following the death of George Floyd, an African American who died after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck until…
We all know which statue I’m talking about, don’t we? If you don’t, you must be too busy to be checking social media or watching the news which, in the age of lockdown, probably makes you 1-in-a-million. And incredibly lucky.…