Imagine, for a moment, that your government is led by a serial liar, an amoral poltroon, and that he got the job after spending years calling you names. If you’re white, the first two apply anyway but you may have to think hard about what it’s like to be poor, or from Liverpool, to understand the third one. If you’re black, you don’t need to imagine at all. The poorest and darkest-skinned amongst us die in greater numbers from coronavirus for the exact same reason that they are less likely to be vaccinated: the people issuing the instructions are neither of them, or for them. The Vaccines Minister, Nadhim Zahawi, was born in Baghdad, but unlike most other Iraqi migrants he’s a millionaire who has a £10million property empire, earned more than £400,000 from three jobs in 2017, and once spunked £6,000 of YOUR money on heating his stables. He has even less to say to the average brown-skinned Brit, than they do with him. It’s because this government has so few people who have ever had to wonder how to feed their children that they struggle to understand how, or why, to feed yours. And because they’ve never had… Read full this story
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