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When I claim my black Britishness in this age of intolerance, here is the music that goes with it | Hugh Muir
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This is surreal.

When I claim my black Britishness in this age of intolerance, here is the music that goes with it | Hugh Muir

This is surreal. I’m standing in the new home of one of Britain’s most historically august cultural institutions, and it looks and feels for all the world like a silent disco.There is a middle-aged white.

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