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Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week we have Spiked Editor Brendan O'Neill.

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And Spiked columnist Ella Wielin.

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Coming up on the show, the Government's Race Report,

The Batley Grammar Cartoon Controversy and Vaccine Passports. the battle

grammar cartoon controversy and vaccine passports.

The report found no evidence of institutional racism.

At the moment people are just going around declaring institutional race and what they've done they devalued the term.

When some of the language used by this report are calling. You know the idea that it's in our heads denies the lived experience.

I think this report actually takes us backwards in the debate on race.

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