Above all, they shouldn’t become preoccupied with Woke to the exclusion of everything else. This is the trap that many Labour backbenchers and much of the Left is falling into.
Positive ideas of empire which in recent decades almost no one dared to express are emerging once more into public discourse.
For starters, Khan – London’s Police and Crime Commissioner as well as its Mayor – seems more interested in climate change than crime.
With polls showing a worried public, how can it be that Democrats still flirt with the idea of taking money away from police departments?
It is a litany of uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. Obsessing over these does little to spur progress.
The third part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
Plus: I am seriously considering stepping back from Twitter. And: the play you must see.
Were they using the Ollie Robinson row yesterday to test the water for a wider, deeper intervention?
I’ll always passionately support the side – but both it and the FA risk alienating the majority of decent football fans.
There is a vocal minority of people who dominate discussions in the media, and seem determined to import the racially-charged culture we see in the US.
We cannot have a system where the rules are differently enforced depending on whether the public share the opinions of the people infracting them.
That there may be as many as three investigations into Saturday’s events on Clapham Common tells us much we need to know.
Revulsion at the thought of slavery should be something to unite, not divide, the whole of mankind.