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Is it a good thing to tear down statues?

Is it a good thing to tear down statues?  Recent media attention has been focused around the presence of statues around the U.K. and shows protesters either attempting to tear them down or defend them. The debate has come to lack nuance and seems to have divided along the lines of ‘racists want statues’ and ‘anti-racists hate statues’ but we (Jack Johnson and Papa Obeng) think this is somewhat ridiculous and want attempt to provide a more nuanced approach to this issue. If you fall into one of the above camps you will probably find something in this blog post that you agree with and also that you disagree with, read on if you will.  It’s worth saying at the outset that this debate is happening too late. Its 2020 over 200 years after we abolished the slave trade the fact that this conversation hasn’t happened yet is ridiculous. and we want to make it known from the beginning that we believe racism and slavery are abhorrent. As is its nature, however, government is slow and so
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A Letter to my Friends

  To all my friends, The purpose of this blog post is to highlight those parts of modern left, right and middle political groups that most frustrate me, and to tell you why. However, the style is that of an angry rant (with maybe some hope at the end). So, if you are easily offended, I advise that you stop reading now.  To my friends on the left,   You have ignored the anti-Semitism in the Labour party, to say that ‘Corbyn is not an anti-Semite’ is not enough, because he did not use his position of authority and power to fight it. Here I refer you to Martin Niemoller’s poem first they came , which reads First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then t
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Politics today, Brexit and the major parties Brexit dominates the political debate and has done so since David Cameron announced he would hold a referendum in 2015. However, since the referendum debate it has proceeded to split political parties, families and communities. If you voted remain you are a remoaner with no confidence in ‘our great nation’ and if you’re a Brexiter you’re xenophobic, unrealistic and unprepared - or so each side would have you believe. But what happens if you’re in the middle? How should the ordinary middle of the road (in essence if you swing between parties or find yourself as a new labour/ lib dem or compassionate conservative) British voter respond the current set of options? Well firstly we need to make our mind up on Brexit. In the Brexit campaign I was a staunch remainer, I engaged in public debates as to why this was the case and tried to convince as many people as possible to my point of view, but I lost. As a result I became a reluctant bre
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