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The worlds outcry following the televised murder of George Floyd in the United States offered an opportunity for a fundamental reset in the over-policing of black communities. The marches and protests, and demands for change, across the summer of 2020 in the United Kingdom evidenced in some respects that change was possible. We were all united against racism; serving officers in the Metropolitan Police Service even took the knee as a sign of solidarity.

The then prime minister Boris Johnson promised an urgent examination of the state of racism in the UK, culminating in an action plan that took the form of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) report, which came to the much-criticised conclusion that institutional racism was not borne out by the evidence. This plan has to be viewed in the context of new laws that confirm a disturbing trend towards the reduction of civic space and a retreat from principles of equality and non-discrimination. Over the last few months, the government have passed legislation that effectively curtailsthe right to protest, allows for the arbitrary deprivation of peoples citizenship, and facilitatesblatant corruption in public office. The Nationality and Borders Act 2022, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, and the Elections Act 2022, confer extraordinary powers to the state, but not as far as I can see carte blanche authority to the police in their apparent campaign against black communities.

Instead, members of the police seem to be demanding this for themselves.

Chris Kabas fatal shooting another incident in the UKs list of George Floyd moments has led to the suspension of the officer responsible for the killing from frontline duties, and to yet another IOPC investigation. As a result of the suspension, some officers are reportedly threatening to withdraw their labour. To put it another way: unless they are given the green light to shoot unarmed Black men, and allowed to do so with no accountability, trained firearms officers are threatening to quiet quit. Such threats discredit the very officers who took the knee two short summers ago, undermine the already flawed CRED report, and signal if we were ever in doubt that in sections of the police service, Black Lives do not Matter.

I for one would welcome this threatened exodus of trained firearms officers; it may save a young black mans life.

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CNNs chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour suggested Friday that King Charles III must address Britain's "colonial legacy."

Amanpour was live in London analyzing Charles IIIs first public address as king and the conversation came around to how "different demographics" were listening to it for different reasons.

"I really do believe that we have to have this conversation right now, even at this moment," she said of British colonialism and pointed to the king's remarks.

"And look, what he said, In the 70 years of her being on the throne, many cultures and faiths have flourished in these past seven decades," she paraphrased.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S COFFIN ARRIVES IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

Britain's King Charles III before Privy Council members in the Throne Room during the Accession Council at St James's Palace, London, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, where he was formally proclaimed monarch. (Jonathan Brady/Pool Photo via AP)

Amanpour appeared to suggest that this flourishing was overblown, "particularly in the wake of Black Lives Matter and particularly in the protests that erupted all over the world after what happened in Minnesota, here as well, in France and other parts of these nations that had colonial servants, lets face it."

She recounted further that Britain, specifically, has a controversial imperial history, saying, "People were in service to this empire. The wealth of this empire was derived on the back of the people of their empire."

"What were saying is that there is the generation of multicultural and diverse Britons who want this answered, who want to see their monarch finally talk about what it means and, you know, potentially the idea of reparations, definitely justice, right? Justice," she said, warning that the citizenry of Britain has diversified and is looking to the King to address modern cultural issues with new policies.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2022/05/30: A Union Jack with a celebration of The Queen (from John Lewis and Waitrose) is displayed on the Piccadilly Lights in Piccadilly Circus for the Platinum Jubilee, marking the 70th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S MANY TRIBUTES TO 9/11 VICTIMS INCLUDED 2010 TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY'S GROUND ZERO

She added further that "Prince William whos the heir and the next king, he talked about it, having been criticized for a trip he made in the Caribbean - again, colonial legacy - that we must have this discussion, and it must be up to those countries. But it also has to be had in this country [England] as well."

During his first televised address as king after he inherited the crown from the late Queen Elizabeth II, Charles III addressed the increasingly diverse state of the U.K.

The late Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning monarch in British history. (Alastair Grant - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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"In the course of the last seventy years we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths. The institutions of the State have changed in turn," he noted. "But, through all changes and challenges, our nation and the wider family of Realms of whose talents, traditions and achievements I am so inexpressibly proud have prospered and flourished. Our values have remained, and must remain, constant."

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Lord Woolley said his previous conversation with King Charles amid Black Lives Matter protest has been positive as he revealed the monarch and Lord Woolley had an adult conversation. The peer said King Charles genuinely questioned him on how the Royal Family and institutions can give power and sense of belonging to the youths who protested the longest in the British history. He revealed that ahead of their meeting, King Charles asked him to meet in person, showing great genuineness and interest in establishing a conversation where he could look you in the eye and sense whether he can trust you.

Lord Woolley told LBC: The question of race and particularly race inequalities is a s systemic challenge, but my dealings with the King has been very positive.

After the Black Lives Matter protest, he asked me to come to his house to talk about how we can give support to the youths who protested the longest and biggest protest in British history.

He revealed: He said how can we give them power? How can we give them a sense of belonging?

I thought that was an adult conversation to have.

I think he saw the tens of thousands of people that took to the streets, it was unprecedented.

Weve never seen anything like that and it struck a chord with him when he apparently heard me speak and say that that was the time for leaders to come to the fall, stand up and be counted and do their bits.

Referring to the conversation King Charles and Lord Woolley had, he added: It was in lockdown, we were just coming out on and I thought we would meed on Zoom, but he said lets meet face to face.

I think thats how he operates, he likes to look you in the eye, he likes to sense whether he can trust you and whether he can work with you.

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The death of Queen Elizabeth II mostly evoked fond memories in South Asia, where we still think of the English as jolly good fellows who taught us the pleasures of cucumber sandwiches and buttered scones, the crack of willow on leather and the romance of the rails. Of course, there is an uneasy understanding that the railways were developed to open up hinterlands and speed up troop movementsthe need was keenly felt after 1857rather than to help the natives holiday. But never mind, the English and their royals were all right, even if they did pinch the Kohinoor and now charge exorbitant sums to let you see it in the Tower of London.

But times are changing rapidly, and the old admonition against speaking ill of the dead is out of datethat, too, was a British import, derived via the Enlightenment from Chilon of Sparta (6th century BC). Bashing Nehru is a profitable industry, and other worthies of the period are not immune. Earlier, UK dignitaries visiting India only feared demands for an apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Now that its been Indianised into an entertainment venue with a laser show, attention has shifted to the Kohinoor, which is of more material value. The Shri Jagannath Sena of Odisha wants the hot rock returned to the Lord of the World and has asked the President, who will attend the Queens funeral, to do the needful.

Queen Elizabeth II assumed the throne in 1952, in another period of rapid change. Ten days before she became Queen, Black Saturday rioters burned down the business district of Cairo, particularly targeting British businesses. Nine months later, the Crown declared martial law in Kenya and viciously suppressed the Mau Mau rising, in which at least 11,000 were killed. Ironically, that was precisely where the Queen was honeymooning in a treehouseamidst a large company including Jim Corbettwhen she received news of her fathers death, and the princess who climbed a tree famously came back down a queen. In Asia, the Jewel in the Crown went native, with Jawaharlal Nehru heading the first elected government in May. When Elizabeth took the throne, it was sunset in the empire on which the sun had never set. Its shrinkage has continued, and today, the UK is neither united nor a real kingdom. She kept up appearances in an institution that has been irrelevant for 75 years but memories of occasional brutality and systematic extraction, especially in Africa, remain.

Some African interests have reacted sharply to the Queens death. The South African party, Economic Freedom Fighters, said it does not mourn the Queen because she never acknowledged or apologised for the empires atrocities. Indeed, the argument that the Queen was restricted to a ceremonial role by the institutional protocol is a poor excuse. Institutions are made up of people who have agency and choice. The voice of Elizabeth would have drowned out that of the establishment had she chosen to settle historical accounts. But out of respect, most of the former colonies let it pass.

Over a century ago, the Irish trade unionist James Connolly pointed out that deference to royalty interferes with mental hygiene: The mind accustomed to political kings can easily be reconciled to social kingscapitalist kings of the workshop, the mill, the railway, the ships and the docks. Thus, coronation and kings visits [George V was swimming into Connollys ken at the time] are by our astute never sleeping masters made into huge Imperialist propagandist campaigns in favour of political and social schemes against democracy.

Black Lives Matter has made the UK itself aware of its historical lack of democratic values. In 2020, protesters in Bristol dumped the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the drink. There is uneasiness about the dirty money from slavery and conquest in the very foundations of Britains institutions. The East India Company was the worlds first transnational narcotics cartel, forcing peasants in Bihar and UP to grow poppy and attacking China to create a market for opium. The Doctrine of Lapse used against Indian states like Awadh and Jhansi was blatant trespass. And the Queens prime minister Winston Churchill is understood to have precipitated the Bengal Famine of 1943. By modern conceptions of rights, these were criminal projects, and the Queens death brought them up again.

But it also resurrected a delightful tradition: telling the bees. The day after she died, John Chapple, 79, the beekeeper of Buckingham Palace, bound the beehives with black ribbons and told their inhabitants that their mistress was dead, that King Charles III was their new master. They should be nice to him and not buzz off because you cant live life king-size without a spot of honey on your breakfast toast.

Telling the bees is an ancient Celtic tradition, from when bees were believed to flit between worlds. But maybe its only because until colonialism began in earnest, Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to the Mauryan court, was perhaps the only European to have encountered sugarcane. Until the slave-powered Caribbean cane plantations were set up in Britain, sweetness meant honey. No wonder Melissa (honeybee in Greek) remains a popular name.

The UK press dismissed telling the bees as superstition. They had earlier ridiculed Prince Charles for conversing with plants and trees, which kept him somewhat sane. But when it was discovered that plants could communicate, they declared that he was ahead of his time.

Bees also have a languagean aerial dance which workers perform to point their colleagues to a good patch of flowers by describing the angle at which the sun strikes the eye. Maybe the Queens bees understood what the beekeeper told them. Maybe they danced in reply. If not, perhaps King Charles III would be happy to talk to them about it.

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There has never in the history of the United States of America been anything like this five-year-old city. On the southwest outskirts of Atlanta, it is a mostly suburban municipality with a population of some 108,000 in which nine of every 10 of the residents are Black. Of places of its size, it is statistically the Blackest by far.

A hundred or so years after hundreds of thousands of rural Black people began to alter the contours of national politics by migrating toward better jobs and lives in cities, then suburbs, across the country, the existence and the autonomy of South Fulton would seem like a welcome culmination of a long evolution from powerlessness to power.

But the city is tearing itself apart.

Its mayor, khalid kamau a gay, Christian, socialist, self-described Black nationalist, a former film student, flight attendant, bus driver, Black Lives Matter organizer says that he wants to create a real-life Wakanda, a city thats Black on purpose. But hes brushed up against the incremental, integrationist, typically more moderate politics of Atlantas Black elite shared by much of the rest of South Fultons local government. And now, hes accusing the city of hiding public records. Hes attempted to fire the city attorney. Hes reiterated his request to hire a therapist for the city.

Michael Kruse, Brittany Gibson and Delece Smith-Barrow went to this strange, singular capital for our latest installment of The Next Great Migration where they began to hear whispers of a next Next Great Migration. Because while South Fultons leaders debate issues of identity, most of its residents are wondering if they should stay in a city that promised economic prosperity and security but is instead delivering political strife.

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You are a donkey, Mr. Danger.

Can you guess what foreign head of state said this about President George W. Bush in a televised speech in 2006? Scroll to the bottom for the answer.**

When Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida wanted to pull a political stunt this week, he got almost effortless media attention by sending two planes full of migrants to, of all places, Marthas Vineyard.

Republican governors have actually sent more migrants to Chicago, New York and Washington D.C., but theres a reason the Vineyard story blew up. Its a blue bubble within a blue bubble, the kind of place rich Democrats go when they want to get away from political turmoil. Heres what to know about the enclave that DeSantis just crashed:

- If you go there, its just called the Vineyard.

- Despite its old-line WASPy reputation, the Vineyard has an immigrant community already and has long been a popular vacation spot for Black families.

- In the summer, theres reliably a big-money Democratic fundraiser on the social calendar. Just last month, Barack Obama jumped into the midterm fight by headlining an event with Eric Holder.

- It's one place in America you can reliably visit a nude beach and seeAlan Dershowitz.

- It's where Obama gets away even from his friends. His 60th birthday, celebrated on the Vineyard, was famous for how many people he disinvited. Notably still on the list: Jay-Z, Tom Hanks, Eddie Vedder.

- A Vineyard scandal once took down a Democratic presidential hopeful.

Michael Beschloss speaks during a taping of NBC's Meet the Press on Oct. 30, 2005 in Washington, D.C. | Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press

History With a Kick Historian Michael Beschloss loves the archives. His Twitter is an oddly compelling stream of archival images that has gotten him a touch more than 800,000 followers over a decade. For most of that run, his history lessons have tended towards the anodyne. But in the Trump era, Beschloss has found his inner online provocateur, tweeting out pictures of the Rosenbergs as news broke that federal agents found nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago, or the Munich Beer Hall Putsch on Jan. 6th.

Is he that way irl? Michael Schaffer went to see him for this weeks Capital City column, on a mission to figure out whether Beschloss is the classic TV historian, the guy with the quick Twitter fingers or something beyond either of those public personas.

58 percent of voters who strongly approve of President Joe Bidens performance also have a favorable opinion of King Charles III. Thats compared to just 45 percent of Democrats writ large.

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A Biblical Campaign Josh Shapiro is trying to become a new kind of Jewish politician as he runs for governor of Pennsylvania. Instead of downplaying his religion out of a fear of appearing different, he thinks he can use his faith he describes himself as a middle-class Conservative Jew as a tool to win over voters in his fight against Doug Mastriano. On a bright September morning in Philadelphia, as Shapiro speaks with more than a dozen powerful pastors of nearby A.M.E. churches who could help him turn out Black voters in November, it seems to be working, writes Holly Otterbein.

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What AOC and Nixon Have in Common While ire towards the Supreme Court comes mostly from the left these days, in 1970, angry with a series of liberal rulings, then-President Richard Nixon directed a congressman from Michigan by the name of Gerald Ford to target liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for impeachment. In a two-hour address, the normally mild-mannered Michigan congressman tore into the veteran sitting justice, accusing Douglas of giving legitimacy to the militant hippie-yippie movement, attacking his personal life and linking him with porn and even the Mafia. Frederic J. Frommer looks into the fallout from Fords crusade and why getting someone off the bench is never a simple proposition.

These presidential soap busts (yes, we said presidential soap busts), pictured September 1947, were the work of J. T. Taylor from San Antonio, Texas. The soap artist wrote to Harry S. Truman to ask for a portrait of the president without glasses so the sculptor could carve his likeness, as he had done for all prior presidents, writes Ella Creamer.

Presidents and political symbols have often been the subjects of bathroom supplies: The Secret Service once called a California businesswoman to ask if she would stick the presidential insignia on her toiletry range and sell it in the White House gift shop.

Presidents are actually responsible for paying for general household items like toothpaste, toilet paper and deodorant themselves. Since presidents cant easily pop into a local CVS (and rarely carry a wallet), a White House staff member will pick up those items and then bill the president.

**Who Dissed? answer: It was then-President of Venezuela Hugo Chvez, who repeatedly called Bush "Mr. Danger" and also called him (in Spanish) a liar, drunk, coward and psychologically sick.

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