It can be hard to remember just how strange things were during the pandemic. Every day the front pages covered the virus spreading from city to city in minute detail, while politicians and citizens alike excoriated each other for failing to show sufficient concern about the disease.
With the benefit of those two years, it’s now – probably – just about safe to say it: the summer of 2020, which was dominated by the Black Lives Matter movement, really was quite strange. In response to George Floyd’s death in Minnesota, politicians in Britain took the knee in solidarity, protesters turned out in force even though pandemic restrictions were still in place, and Keir Starmer apologised profusely for referring to a ‘Black Lives Matter moment’ – which apparently dismissed the campaign’s importance.
What happens in the United States has a tendency to make its way over here
Two years on, he was clearly correct.
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