Culture

    Well, it all starts again in a few days with that semi-regular visit to the House of Windsor. This time it’s for one of those fucked weddings. When Harry met Sally, there was an immediate vibe which has blossomed into true love and paved the way for Saturday’s exchanging of vows. I can hardly wait. Harry has promised that his 2018 vows will be very similar to those uttered by big brother Will when he married Grace in 2011. Of course, those original vows have been tested dramatically since Will and Grace’s wedding. Subsequent sprog generation has resulted in a nest of royal infants who, when assembled, look like something out of a Town and Country fashion shoot from the 1930s. The fact that Princess Bluto hasn’t uttered a sound since her birth some three years ago is also of mounting concern. Sources close to the palace reveal that Will’s eyes are now pointed firmly in the direction of Scary Spice, especially since she’s lost all that weight. And she’s managed t...

Blogging is a new thing for me. It’s basically fun but I wasn’t aware of how important it could be until I came across Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book, Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race . My 2018 edition is the result of a blog Eddo-Lodge initially posted in early 2014 which had an immediate impact around the globe and encouraged her to develop and expand on those ideas and analysis. This book is the product of that process. My reactions follow…… Eddo-Lodge’s opening treatment of history, from a black viewpoint, in Great Britain has been criticised for omitting significant events but she’s certainly covered a lot of territory in the book. Britain’s willing and active participation in the slave trade, ‘hybrid’ children, Harold Moody’s League of Coloured Peoples, Rachmanism, the ‘Sus’ laws from the 1980s, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act (1962), the Oval 4, race riots in 1958 and 1982 and the Labour Party’s Black Sections are just a few of the things she pins to the wall. ...