The royal interview puts racism in Britain back in the spotlight
But Britons think America is the more racist country
NOT LONG ago, any report on the state of race relations in Britain would have featured a large photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. According to a long line of commentators, their marriage in 2018 symbolised a country at ease with itself. “A reverend quoting Martin Luther King, a swaying black gospel choir, and a mixed-race duchess,” ran a typical headline, on Mail Online: “the day the monarchy embraced multicultural Britain’s future”.
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Britain March 13th 2021
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take on the firm
- The royal interview puts racism in Britain back in the spotlight
- Britain will drift from Europe, but not very far
- The cost of Brexit becomes apparent
- Anger and division among loyalists over the Northern Ireland protocol
- Two conservative upstarts aim to disrupt British TV news
- Less barley, more deer: how covid-19 is changing rural Britain
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