After it failed to review my play, Mandrake understands the Daily Telegraph will not be reviewing Professor Alan Lester’s Deny and Disavow either and it’s hardly any wonder. The book convincingly challenges just about everything its former columnist Boris Johnson has ever stood for and to a large extent the whole basis of Brexit.
“If we are to begin to address the structural inequalities of race, inherited from centuries of colonialism in this country, we need to wean ourselves off seeing the essence of Britishness in a White supremacist empire,” writes Lester. The book – just published – reveals just how selective and discriminatory is the version of British history defended by today’s populists. Thoroughly recommended.
