In order to fight bigotry, it is not enough to just campaign for changing our systems. We need to look deeper at our language too
It has been a while since I last wrote, in response to the racial abuse targeted at three England players after the Euro 2020 final. I've wanted to vary topics on this blog, but the same themes keep cropping up in the news and it sparks my feeling of discontent at the institutions that dictate this country. For there always seems to be a recurring theme - and it is a tendency of the public to fall into the narrative of callously neglecting institutional failings and the power of language and semantics. In the news in the past few days has been the life-sentencing given to the former Met police officer Wayne Couzens for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in early March this year. It is undoubtedly justice in a legal sense of the word, but it's not really cause for celebration that we like to think our justice system offers. The murder of Sabina Nessa in the past week has shown again how men take advantage of women, in any scenario. Perhaps they will, for a few days at