Hi @kemibadenoch, I saw that your government has followed the courageous lead of President Trump and banned critical race theory. I know you must be busy but could you let me know which of CRT's insights is now illegal? Or is it all of them? Thanks!

This 2011 summary (by David Gillborn and @NicolaRollock) is hosted by the British Educational Research Association by the way, not a noted radical/Marxist organisation. Maybe you should get @beranews to take it down given your new crusade?

1. As an American historian this doesn't seem a radical insight to me; but again, keen to get your view

2. So your government, unlike most of Britain's major institutions, is going to spend 2020 not only denying that structural racism is a thing but actually making that insight…illegal?

3. Derrick Bell is really good on this in his 1992 article "Racial Realism", FWIW

4. Another shout out to Derrick Bell here. Have you read anything by him? He was a scholar of enormous humanity and courage, and he might help defuse your paranoia about the intentions and values of those who've centred race in the study of the past & present

5. Again not a radical concept these days? And an important tool for linking economic/gender inequality to racial injustice in ways that avoid creating false divisions between poorer people (e.g. in your government's frequent invocations of the "white working class")

That's it for the summary. It'd be really helpful if you could clarify your remarks about banning CRT and explain how they are compatible with your defence of free speech. (Though maybe on free speech, as with your Covid policy, universities are an exception?)