Labour’s leader may claim he didn’t see racism in Hobson’s book. But can the party indulge that delusion, asks the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
I’m trying to imagine the left’s reaction if it emerged that a leading politician had once lavished praise on a century-old book that not only trotted out racist stereotypes about, say, black people and their supposed characteristics, but whose central thesis rested on an ancient, hostile assumption about that group.
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