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Mar 2024
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What progressives get wrong about race -...

Louise Perry
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My guest today is Rakib Ehsan, writer, researcher, and author of 'Beyond Grievance: What the Left gets wrong about ethnic minorities.' 

We started by speaking about family breakdown as a cause of inequality across ethnic groups, and the enormous differences in economic success between different ethnic minorities in Britain, and the tension that generates…

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