Brighton’s battle over critical race theory

The city council has embraced this divisive ideology.

[This article was originally published on Spiked Online]

Over the past decade, critical race theory has come to play an increasingly prominent role in British public life. It has been embraced by successful authors and journalists, and has spread through universities and numerous other public institutions.

But in few places has it been embraced with quite as much zeal as Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC).

This is partly because BHCC is dominated by Labour and the Greens. Both factions therefore compete with each other over who is the most ‘progressive’, driving each other on to ever more woke heights.

So, on 12 June 2020, on the eve of a Black Lives Matter demo, Labour’s Carmen Appich, the lead councillor for equalities, announced that BHCC was to be known as ‘the anti-racist council’. Her statement was peppered with CRT buzz phrases. ‘This is about …………….. [Read More]