On Monday, Lord Michael Grade, the former chair of Ofcom, declared that the populist GB News had given the “white majority” a voice in public debates. No evidence was provided to prove that the majority of white Britons support the views on immigration, identity, belonging, citizenship rights and entitlements promulgated by several GB News presenters, including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
The grandee surfed the waves of disinformation and racist fury and projected himself as a heroic man of the people. Alarmingly, other mainstream media outlets, various institutions and non-white players like Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Reform MP Suella Braverman and Reform home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf, are also competing in the extreme sport of jingoism. The Oxford Union has invited Tommy Robinson to speak; a white supremacy summit has allegedly taken place in this country.
Not since the early 1970s have I seen racism out there and proud. Back then, multi-racial, anti-racist movements came out in force. Today, racial hate is justified as an “understandable” response to diversity. We are made to believe by Reform and others on the right that public opinion is now irredeemably hostile to immigrant “invaders” – undocumented and legal, new, settled and even third-generation British citizens.
The future seemed so bleak. Then, yesterday, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, sister of the murdered MP, Jo Cox, shook me out of this state of futile despair. The disorder following the horrendous murder of Henry Novak, she said, was instigated by a vocal minority. The rest of us have a “duty to drown them out and tell the good stories of this country”. So here is a column which brings you “respair”, the opposite of despair, which the wonderful wordsmith Susie Dent shared on these pages some time back.
Here are some personal experiences that tell me all is not lost. A friendship has sprouted between me and the broadcaster and author Matthew Stadlen. He is Jewish and appears regularly on GB News. I am a Muslim leftie. The other day, he was interviewed on GB News, and the presenter, Bev Turner, claimed there was no riot in Belfast, that no one ended up in hospital and that no houses were burnt. Stadlen’s contained fury and righteousness exposed Turner’s moral vacuity.
Then, on the Matt Allwright show on Channel 5, I was on with that adamant Brexiteer, ex-Tory MP Steve Baker. He seemed genuinely committed to racial equality in his party and is concerned, as I am, about the far right. Finally, two middle-aged white men approached me, one in Morrisons, the other in a pub near us. I prepared myself for a dump of anti-immigrant hostilities. But no. They thanked me for standing up for working-class people.
Good stuff is happening out there. Thousands of people marched in Belfast to support victims after the riots. And last Saturday, when far-right demonstrators protested in Brighton, Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow, they faced fierce opposition from counter-demonstrators. The most surprising development has been the mauling of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain by the right-wing Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday which described it as a home for “neo-Nazis”. I don’t know what led to this assault. But every little helps.
This nation was made by waves of migrants who came, settled and found ways to survive the resentments and violent reactions of natives and those who came before. Today’s myths about real Brits being pushed down and out by foreigners were around when the Huguenots landed here, when Jews sought refuge from persecution and when colonial masters brought over their servants. It’s all in Robert Winder’s book Bloody Foreigners. What makes it much worse today is social media and its disruptive, frightening influence. X owner Elon Musk is driving some of this.
But this is a country of many colours. You cannot bleach it white.
Think of the World Cup. Would Farage and Lowe ban players of colour from England and Scottish teams? And would fans applaud them for making the game white again? I don’t think so. Would our arts, our popular culture, food, fashion, science, medicine and care system survive ethnic cleansing?
And could white supremacists take over and deliver what they promise? Not now, not ever. The great artist David Hockney died last week. One of the most beautiful, poignant portraits he painted was of his carer, Thomas Mupfupi, a black man wearing a badge that says “End Bossiness Soon”, clearly a fond joke between them. Racists may rip us apart. But the Britain, open-hearted and at ease with difference, represented in Hockney’s painting, will survive and go on.
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