“FAR-LEFT” influence on Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion to be probed,” read the “exclusive” headline in the Daily Telegraph.
“Attempts by far-left activists to ‘hijack’ movements including Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion are being investigated in a review ordered by Boris Johnson,” it said, with the review led by turncoat ex-Labour MP John Woodcock.
The idea of reds stirring up black activists sounded familiar, so I looked back at some old issues of The Times.
In the 1960s, black Americans in the Southern states could not vote, and were terrorised by the police and racist gangs.
They organised a civil rights movement of marches and protests. George Wallace, the racist governor of Alabama, tried stopping them.