Give all the islands back

IN ORDER TO SPOT A FAR-RIGHT THUG, you need to look out for the following: white skin, shaved head, Union Jack tattoo, and a tendency to call for independent inquiries into mass child sexual abuse scandals. That’s why it’s such a relief that our prime minister, Keir Starmer has spotted the early warning signs and called out those politicians who – as Starmer put it – are jumping “on a bandwagon of the far-right” by demanding an inquiry into grooming gangs. The government needs to focus on the things that really matter, like how to deal with Elon Musk being mean on the internet. Since he won the prime-ministership, Starmer has not put a foot wrong. He has turbocharged the national decolonisation effort by offering to give the Chagos islands…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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