exactly - it is based on being spectacularly ignorant of so much American history.

It is a very tiresome viewpoint of America.

He grew up in segregated, Jim Crow era Mississippi, then in Missouri under desegregation orders. And, as he always told us, "THOSE people didn't do nothing to hurt us."

I'm heated! I will be calling my Senators here in Michigan.

Listen, I thought the same thing. Only someone from her demographic could pull off that kind of shenanigan and get away with it, to become an editor of a major publication.

I still have the same reaction to USAID now that I had when I heard about their demise. It was an organisation dedicated to infantilising and destabilising the Global South with a veneer of saviorism as a cover.

It was a plaster not a cure - the Global South needs a cure.

I don't think the potential demise of the BBC is a leftist boon, to me it is a decline of an institution that is no longer fit for purpose. Maybe, it needs to die because it pandering to the right has caused a lot of damage and they can't even acknowledge that.

Aziz - this timeline can't be real.

I don't know - I'm a Black Brit and the racism and xenophobia has been through the roof in recent years.

People are itching to harm me and other marginalised people. I'm a bit despondent.