SHEM

Honestly I just want to see people whole, healthy, loved and living out their purpose.

Nathan Cofnas has publicly argued that in a “meritocracy” there would be “close to zero” Black professors at Harvard. I call that racism. He has gained more notoriety from keeping a young, gifted Black man’s name in his mouth than from anything of significance in his own work. There is something deeply sinister about a man who argues that Black academics do not belong in elite institutions finding relevance by relentlessly targeting one who did. Whatever legitimate questions existed about Jason Arday’s academic work, Cofnas should now reckon with the humanity of the man he made a target.

I’ve not been a fan of Keir Starmer but this resignation feels unecessary. Britain must look like a political circus to the rest of Europe. We left the EU promising stability, sovereignty and control, yet since Brexit we’ve been changing Prime Ministers like they’re contestants on a reality TV show. Brexit continues to prove itself a spectacular act of national self-sabotage.