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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Every week we pick a few of our writers for them to read out their articles to you.

This week, Christopher Snowden from the Institute of Economic Affairs

writes about just why white working class boys

are falling behind in their studies.

We're also bringing you our leading article of the week,

which talks about the government's inconsistent messaging

on easing the lockdown.

And at the very end, you're here Toby Young,

our status anxiety columnist,

who writes about why his name is in Geoffrey Epstein's Little Black

book. First up, here's Christopher Snowden. You can argue about the merits of pulling down statues,

but it's hard to make the case that mass protests serve no useful purpose. At the very least,

they can provoke debate and draw attention to uncomfortable topics that might otherwise be ignored.

The recent protests have forced everyone to have difficult discussions about race, class, poverty,

entertainment. Any serious examination of the statistics shows that we're still far from equal,

but what the figures also show is that it's wrongheaded and damaging to lump very different groups together.

In these discussions, politicians often lazily assume that all black, Asian, and minority

ethnic or BAME people are the same, and that all white groups are equally privileged.

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