Having been born in Calcutta, I have seen first hand the economic and human cost of the disaster that is socialism.
Plus: Ferguson’s evidence, two metres distance, Desmond’s donation, Jenrick’s response.
The Mayor of London is wrong to seek to erase our common history rather than contribute to it in new ways.
“From here, I’m afraid, the journey is all too obvious. The only way to prevent this is to reverse the re-racialisation of our society.”
It’s striking that three Tory ethnic minority Ministers – first Badenoch; then Patel, and now Sunak – have sounded clearer-headed than some of their colleagues.
“But I must also say that we are in a time of national trial…we can’t now let the virus get out of control.”
But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.
As a rule, the Conservatives are unclear about the politics of equality and identity. But there’s at least one Minister who isn’t.
Collecting statistics on people’s self-identified racial background is one thing. Having ringfenced funding for one racial group is quite another.
Postmodernism strips the likes of Shamima Begum of personal responsibility and judges her solely by ethnicity, religion and class.
It is a sad and all-too-obvious fact that most of the decision makers I meet in my role as Mayor are people who look like me.
We are more complex than identitarians give us credit for. No combination of characteristics, experiences and choices are the same; and there are as many combinations as there are people.
We need to be proactive, and champion those universal values that we all share. And BAME conservatives need to be articulating and leading it.