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Young and black in Babylondon: part three

06-Mar-07

“You from Trinidad! But you not half-caste!” “I’m sorry?” Walking out of Brixton tube station and into the rain, my forlorn pink umbrella, long conquered by the wind, hanging uselessly by my side. “Excuse me miss!” The voice, polite and distinctly not English, cut through the insistent chorus of skunkweedtravelcardsgetyourhighgrade. I paused. An older man, [...]

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Young and black in Babylondon: part deux

27-Feb-07

“I’m sorry, did you say you worked for the…?” An arched eyebrow, a quizzical look, a quick reappraisal of the dreadlocks, the accent (could she be American? perhaps Welsh?), the attitude, the general foreign-ness. “Oh! Well!” And so on, and such like. It’s not that I’m the only black person in the building, at these [...]

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Stiff Upper Lip

03-Jul-03

Or, why even in spite of Blair, I back the Brits. I quote AndrewSullivan: A carefully drafted civil registration scheme could command support from people of all political affiliations and of none. By instinct, Tories are, rightly, wary of change – especially change based on abstract egalitarian theorising. But we accept changes that remove justified [...]

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