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Bowling the googly of identity politics

Bowling the googly of identity politics

People shouldn't be shoehorned into categories which either damn or absolve them

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Melanie Phillips
Nov 28, 2021
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Azeem Rafiq bowling for Yorkshire, 2017

It’s a fair bet that Azeem Rafiq is ruing the day that he transfixed the nation by telling a parliamentary committee about the racism he had faced as a Yorkshire cricketer.

He produced shocking claims of racial abuse, dressing-room bullying and discriminatory policies that he said had been inflicted on him as a play…

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