Martin Daubney

The hair-raising truth? Dreadlocks don’t belong to one ‘culture’

Hardly a day goes by without some hen-brained millennial student telling us that something that we’ve enjoyed for centuries has suddenly become racist. The Rhodes statue. The bronze cockerel from Jesus College, Cambridge. Sombreros. Kimonos. Native American headdresses. The Cultural Appropriation Brigade has now decided that dreadlocks cannot be worn by white men.We know this because a