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It’s absurd that ‘Black English’ is not on the census. We should be free to claim that identity if we choose | Calum Jacobs
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The arguments have been endless and they are fatuous. Wales and Scotland stopped conflating national identity with race: why can’t England? In 2021, the then shadow justice secretary, David Lammy, asserted his Englishness on the Saturday LBC programme he hosted, only for a caller named Jean to insist that his African-Caribbean heritage disqualified him. He could be British, she maintained, but “never be English”. Jean defended Englishness as though it were a possession she would never surrend
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It’s absurd that ‘Black English’ is not on the census. We should be free to claim that identity if we choose | Calum Jacobs
Calum Jacobs · 11/14/2026, 6:00:38 AM
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