I’ve always worked on the basis that if I’m not interested in the subject matter I’m writing about, our readers will see that and struggle with it too.
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th May 2021 2:00 pm
I caught the tail end of a TV programme a few months ago. I have no idea what it was called or which channel it was on but it made such an impression on me that it has stayed in my mind.
There was a well-spoken young black man in a suit, interspersed with footage of children in a school playground. The young man had gone to school in Stratford, East London and had wanted to be a lawyer. School should have been the place to help him realise that ambition, but instead, he had been told by one teacher “Boys like you don’t become lawyers.”