It is now exactly a year since Amber Rudd resigned as home secretary, and it feels as if the Home Office is as broken as ever, if not more so. There is something of the bleakness of the Arab spring about it all. An unimaginable revolt happened, a despot was overthrown, and for a brief moment it seemed that the time of dystopian oppression was over, before the deep state regrouped and imposed a tyranny redux.
Since Windrush, all we have seen is pathetic attempts at compensating victims, and more scandals. Presiding over it all is the new benevolent dictator Sajid Javid, who speaks in the language of a man who knows how to pay lip service to the forces that removed his predecessor, while doubling down on policies that have not changed, but are merely fronted by a new, more media-friendly face. One that does not hesitate to point out – as often as possible – that it is a brown one.
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