He doesn’t want to face the real issues sparked by George Floyd’s death. So he’s distracting us with a culture war, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
, and spark a national inquiry into who and what gets memorialised in stone and bronze – the debate that got Johnson’s Twitter finger twitching, and to which we shall return.
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