Make Racism Wrong Again
REFORM UK's newly elected councillors include a man who called for migrants to be murdered at sea, a bona fide Holocaust denier and, in my own backyard, a bloke who backed the wholesale closure of mosques. Not for decades has a major UK party, one possibly on course to form a government, allowed such virulent racism in its ranks. Many argue that Reform's rapid rise - two years ago they won just two seats, yesterday some 1,500 - has been fuelled by opponents unwilling to get to grips with concerns about immigration. That a conspiracy of silence is breeding resentment. In reality who amongst our movers and shakers isn't in almost constant dialogue about the need to curb arrivals? Certainly not newspapers, who splash on the subject almost weekly. One study a few years ago ago found the Mail and Express alone had printed more than 300 anti-immigration front pages in just five years. Online meanwhile the bar for tech companies to remove offensive comments rises by the day. Nor i...