The statue of 18th-century slave trader Robert Milligan is taken down in London

In our latest 20-minute UK Week in Review, I chat with talkRadio’s Darryl Morris about staying focused on the vital issues around race, Coronavirus, and the failures of the English Government.

Listen from 8:29 in 0400-0430 Segment

First, we discuss the toppling of statues, such as those of slave traders, and how not to be diverted from Black Lives Matter concerns — historical and contemporary — about justice, violence, and discrimination.

If you’re amongst a group of people who have historically held power or believe that you’ve been empowered, then you are going to look at the past differently from those who have not had power and have often been oppressed.

To invest all of this in defense of a statue is a pretty narrow view. That statue may represent heritage or national pride for some, but for others it’s a symbol of oppression.

See also Churchill Was a Racist. Let’s Understand Why.

Then we place the Government’s latest medicine-show announcement, a trace-and-track system for Coronavirus, in the context of a lack of planning, failures with implementation, and daily statements to cover up problems and the world’s second-highest death toll.

Neal Ferguson, a top scientific advisor, said this week that had restrictions been instituted a week earlier, many thousands of lives could have been saved.

You did not see a Government minister acknowledge that this might have been the case. You did not hear a Government minister say “Look, we might have gotten it wrong”.

Boris Johnson stood up in Parliament and say not, “We have to see how this pans out”, but overall “this had been a success” what the Government had done.

It is time for the Government to stop giving us a gimmick at the daily 5 o’clock press conference to divert us from the previous gimmick going wrong.