
Why is #BLM such a ‘thing’?
Statues that have stood for more than a century are being pulled down. People are turning out in their thousands to rallies around the globe. The murder of George Floyd has started something of a movement. And yet in China hundreds of thousands of Uighurs are in re-education or forced labour camps; in Burma Rohingya are murdered, and their villages’ burnt; and about two thousands migrant labourers have died in Qatar building stadiums for the 2022 soccer world cup. Somehow we