Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
So, then… following on from my theme of a fortnight ago regarding the parlous state of the state’s self-policing. It would appear this week that yet again justice — as with the legendarily partisan appraisal of pulchritude — is very much in the eye of the beholder.
First off we were patronisingly informed that the Home Office, in its beneficence, has decided that there is about as much chance of us getting an independent investigation into the savage assault on pickets by police (mounted or otherwise) at the Orgreave coking plant during the ’84-85 miners’ strike, as there is of finding a working pit in this country.
Orgreave was for many an epochal moment, when the full fury and savagery of the state against its own citizens was on full display.