While this government and its ministers carry on telling us that everything they do is “right”, their “wrongs” continue, just as before. Over the past 2 weeks alone, there have been a string of incidents where the police stopped, searched and arrested young black men, going about their normal lives. They hauled a young black woman with a baby out of a car with her partner and even arrested a black child on a bicycle - accusing them of drug offences.

    Complaints will be made. But the “Independent” Police Complaints Commission will decide the cops were blameless, as it always does. “British” police are “different”, they say, from the US cops who killed George Floyd. Apparently, it’s not racism, if black men are 10 times more likely to be accosted by police than white men!

    And Priti Patel’s Home Office is proceeding undeterred with its “hostile environment for immigrants policy” - yes, the same one which led to the 2018 Windrush scandal, which the government was forced to admit was a travesty. Most of those declared “illegal immigrants” and jailed, or even sent to the Caribbean for lack of proof of their status, have still not been compensated. Five have died in the meantime - after spending most of their lives slaving away in public service, including in the NHS!

    Patel’s deportations of black offenders - to their supposed “home countries” - is also still carrying on behind the scenes. British-born twins Darren and Darrell Roberts face deportation to two different Caribbean islands (which they’ve never been to!), after serving full sentences for offences committed when they were minors. Social services failed to sort out their naturalisation when they were in foster care.

    As their sister says, “Darrell and Darren’s plight highlights the systemic racism built into our institutions in Britain”. Yes, and this racism will only be eradicated when the system itself is eradicated.