363: ‘We lost our minds’ | Lord Sewell on BLM
May 28, 2025•34 min•Ep. 363
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Summary
Lord Tony Sewell discusses his government report on racial and ethnic disparities in the UK, commissioned after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. He reflects on the emotional reaction of that period and challenges the narrative that Britain is systemically racist. Sewell explains how the report found that while racism persists, it is not the sole driver of disparities, highlighting other factors and the successes of various ethnic minority groups in Britain.Episode description
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Five years ago, the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sent the Black Lives Matter movement global. Activists declared Britain to be a ‘systemically racist’ nation, where ‘white privilege’ reigns. Lord Sewell was tasked by the then Conservative government to investigate the state of racism in the UK. His findings, in the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities report, caused uproar among the identitarian elites. Here, he tells spiked why there was no truth behind the BLM narrative in Britain, why class matters more than race, and why ethnic minorities must resist the label of victim.
Five years ago, the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sent the Black Lives Matter movement global. Activists declared Britain to be a ‘systemically racist’ nation, where ‘white privilege’ reigns. Lord Sewell was tasked by the then Conservative government to investigate the state of racism in the UK. His findings, in the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities report, caused uproar among the identitarian elites. Here, he tells spiked why there was no truth behind the BLM narrative in Britain, why class matters more than race, and why ethnic minorities must resist the label of victim.
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