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Allister Heath Sunday Telegraph Editor |
Martin Luther King’s vision of a society where people were judged not “by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character” once felt achievable in Britain. Progress in the fight against racism was tough-going, but we were moving in the right direction.
King’s dream once felt within reach |
Then our elites lost the plot. They abandoned King’s commonsensical anti-racism. They started, over a 30-year period, to turn a blind eye to, or even justify, anti-white racism. The horrifying death of Henry Nowak has to be seen in this context.
What happened? Labour and Tories alike adopted the nostrums of critical race theory (CRT), a far-Left, anti-white, post-modern ideology incompatible with Western civilisation.
Western societies are deemed racist by definition, hotbeds of power imbalances and exploitation, even if nobody is actually racist. Intent is irrelevant: non-white minorities are inevitably oppressed by the white majority. The result? Instead of arguing that race should be irrelevant, our companies, schools and police have become more race conscious.
CRT’s great entryism to the police came in 1999 with Sir William Macpherson’s report into the death of Stephen Lawrence. While well-intentioned and correct about prejudice within the police, Macpherson made fatal concessions to CRT that continue to plague policing today.
Police have become more fearful of accusations of racism |
In Nowak’s case, the result was surely that police believed the non-white killer Vickrum Digwa, whom they treated as a victim after he lied about being racially abused. They did not believe Nowak when he said he had been stabbed as he lay, in handcuffs, succumbing to knife wounds.
Nowak is just the latest scandal. As a matter of urgency, CRT must be extirpated from British policing. We need a genuine struggle against racism, correctly defined, not a woke “anti-racism” that promotes racial animosity and division.
You can read my full column, available only to subscribers, here. Meanwhile, my colleague Gordon Rayner digs deeper into how race ideology captured Britain’s police below. |
A Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, shortly after George Floyd’s murder |
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Gordon Rayner Associate Editor |
Why did Britain’s police forces decide to stop treating us all as equals?
A race action plan produced last year by police leaders in England and Wales told officers they could not be “colour blind” and should not treat everyone “the same”.
Another document published by the Metropolitan Police tells officers they cannot be “neutral” because of their “whiteness”.
Structural review of racism within the Metropolitan Police |
The diversity, equity and inclusion blob appears to have taken over the UK’s police forces, and its effect on the mindset of the officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak as he lay dying is the subject of furious debate.
A police watchdog is investigating why they prioritised a killer’s false allegation of racial abuse over the pleas for help of a man who had been stabbed five times.
What we do know is that the rush to prove anti-racist credentials by Britain’s police chiefs was triggered not by any crisis that happened here, but by the murder of George Floyd thousands of miles away in a very different society with very different policing methods. The foreword to the national police race action plan says so.
Yet Britain had already gone through its own period of reflection following the bungled investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, which had resulted in widespread changes and improvements for the better, as my colleague Allister Heath discusses above.
As plans to scrap race action plans grow, none of the people who wrote them has yet explained why a failure of American policing led to British policing changing for the worse.
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Diana Henry weighs in on the great scone debateIn yesterday’s edition of From the Editor, we asked for your comments on the great scone debate. Thanks to all who got in touch with their differing methods. We thought there would be no better person to have the final say than Diana Henry, our award-winning cookery writer, who shares her favourite recipe for the delicacy.
Scone preparation has divided Britons for centuries |
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Diana Henry The Telegraph’s award-winning cookery writer |
I can never believe what a lather people get into over scones and their adornments but they touch something deep.
I am in complete agreement with Rob James who has applied himself to the science of it. “Only one way makes sense to me,” he says. “Butter, jam then cream. If you don’t use a smear of butter, you risk the scone surface fracturing when the jam is added. Using the cream instead as lubricant to prevent this doesn’t work with warm scones.”
This order has always seemed obvious to me. Butter first so that there is something salty against the sweetness of the scone, then jam (again, for contrast), then cream, a small spoonful of richness that elevates the whole.
This is not the “Sussex method” (jam then cream; no butter) exalted by reader Andrew Hooper. “Vibrate the cream with the end of the knife or spoon,” he advises. “Clotted cream is thixotropic and will flow to perfectly cover the jam when agitated.”
I am so glad to know that clotted cream is “thixotropic”, meaning it becomes thinner when it’s stirred.
These discussions are not the nub of the issue though. The quality of the scone is what we should be looking at. I’ve persevered with decades of scones so dry they stuck to the roof of my mouth but I’ve discovered that my favourites, buttery and soft, are actually American.
Diana Henry spent four months making scones to different recipes – all to find the perfect formula |
Staying in B&Bs in New England a few years back, I had scones every day at breakfast. I left with my handbag stuffed with scone recipes, which you’ll find here. We could learn from them.
If you’re tempted by something sweet, I’ll be sharing a bumper crop of summer berry dishes in my Recipes Newsletter on Saturday, June 6, including an exclusive – a grown-up take on strawberries, jelly and cream. Sign up here and you’ll also receive, in a further special edition on June 20, a clutch of chicken recipes.
Now, what came first, the chicken or the egg…? |
House pestsEvery weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal reader correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
I grew up in a fairly idyllic corner of the country. When the holidays rolled round, my parents were always inundated with requests from friends who wanted to stay. In general these were gladly received – after all, it meant not having to travel hundreds of miles to see them – but just occasionally there’d be a heavy sigh. Brows would furrow. “Remember what they were like last time”?
What the actually-quite-annoying-in-close-quarters friends in question needed, of course, was Anthony Peregrine’s comprehensive guide: How not to be the house guest from hell.
Telegraph readers, too, have been recalling visitors who would have benefited from it.
One wrote: “My sister and her husband always act as though they’re staying in an Airbnb, in which they can behave as they choose: they ignore the owners, and come and go without any sort of warning. I once found them reorganising a cupboard in my kitchen.”
Mark Menhinick added: “Many years ago, my niece’s Aussie friends turned up (I live near Rome) with a camper van. I made the mistake of asking if they wanted any washing done, and was immediately presented with five large bin bags overflowing with dirty clothes. They were very pleasant, though.”
Not ideal – but this, from Deborah Cardwell, seems to me to reach another level: “We invited two people to stay in our house in the Vaucluse. Half an hour after they arrived, their uninvited friends appeared. He, a man in his seventies, started stripping off literally as he got out of the car. He walked straight past us in his lime green swimming trunks, jumped into our pool, surfaced, clicked his fingers at us and shouted: ‘A scotch and soda would be nice.’”
Mollie Regan offered a solution: “We moved to France 21 years ago and learnt very early on that, if anyone said they were coming over to our neck of the woods, our reply would be: ‘How lovely. Where are you staying?’” I’d like to hear your stories. Send them to me here and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
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1927 | The first official Ryder Cup ends with the US beating Great Britain 9.5 to 2.5
1940 | Sir Winston Churchill delivers his famous “fight on the beaches” speech (which we published in full in the following day’s paper, seen below)
1964 | Sir Geoffrey Boycott makes his England Test debut against Australia at Trent Bridge (you can read his latest Telegraph column here)
Birthdays: Princess Lilibet of Sussex (5), Ben Stokes (35), Angelina Jolie (51)
Plus, this New York City property overlooking the treetops of Central Park and Manhattan’s skyline is on the market for $4.75m (£3.5m). Which celebrity, who died in 2016, did the apartment belong to?
1. Carrie Fisher
2. Prince
3. David Bowie
4. Gene Wilder
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Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including The 1% Club, Cogs, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was HERBIVORE. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow.
Chris Evans, Editor
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