Image: Windrush arrivals in 1948, PA Images archive, all rights reserved.
Recent reports of the current Home Office crackdown on Commonwealth elders come as a horrifying surprise, but they tell of a history we have not faced. How did we get here?
The Windrush generation and the long history of not being quite ‘British’ enough
Britain has an ignoble history of exploiting Caribbean people when they were ‘useful’, then casting them aside as insufficiently ‘British’ when they were not.
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