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The Spectator's Notes

The strangeness of Britain’s BLM mania

24 April 2021

9:00 AM

24 April 2021

9:00 AM

The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd makes last summer’s Black Lives Matter mania in British institutions look even stranger. The British Museum, Oxbridge colleges, Sir Keir Starmer, football teams, government departments, Kew Gardens, the National Trust and numerous corporations indulged in various forms of self-abasement.

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