James Bartholomew

Racism, poverty and the ‘controversy paradox’

How come the less something is a problem, the more people talk about it?

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issue 27 June 2020

It might seem puzzling that we have seen such a furore about racism and racial discrimination at this particular time in our history when all possible measures of racism indicate that there is less of it in Britain than at any time in the past 70 years.

A decade ago, 41 per cent of us ‘-strongly agreed’ that we would be content for our children to marry someone of a different race.

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