The white & wrong of UK’s RishismRashmee Roshan LallJun 24, 2024, 21:41 IST ISTNo British politician of a party seen to be losing has got it like Sunak. But this racism has worked subtly, through dog whistle or sneer. Britain may have moved forward on race question but it still mattersIs the race card finally in play against Rishi Sunak in the second half of Britain’s six-week general election campaign? Just the dog whistle, not in propah fashion, not enough to provoke some genuine sympathy for the country’s first prime minister of Indian ethnicity, rather than the abundant pity he currently evokes. As of now, all the funereal head-shaking is about Sunak leading “Torysaurus” — the shrunken dinosaur that is Conservative Party — through a political Jurassic Park, which is readying for an “extinction-level” event.

Source: The Times June 24, 2024 18:28 UTC