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Hello and welcome to Spectator Outloud, where each week we ask three of our writers to read their pieces out.

We've got Douglas Murney who argues that nothing is racist if everything is racist, the Reverend Steve Morris and why we should bring back the British holiday camp, and Toby Young on his new dating website

for lockdown sceptics. First, Douglas Murray. Hearing that Dawn Butler MP had been pulled over

by the Metropolitan Police, I briefly hoped the taxpayer might get back the whirlpool bath

she charged us on her parliamentary expenses.

But the officers skipped the boot and went straight to the passenger side,

where they found the member from Brent Central recording them with her phone

and looking pleased as punch to audition as the new Rosa Parks.

As it happens, the footage she released showed the police being deeply polite,

and they subsequently explained that the pullover had been due to a registration plate mix-up.

But Butler claimed it was a case of the dreaded stop and search,

and within hours she was on Channel 4 News,

being grilled by one of their crack interviewers.

Fatima Manji asked Butler how such a thing could happen to someone

who, a day earlier, had been declared one of the 25 most inspirational women

in Britain by Vogue magazine. The questions on Channel 4 News seemed to have got easier since I last

went on. A smiling butler explained that this was all par for the course for an African Caribbean woman.

She then claimed that the Met Police is institutionally racist and that Cressida Dick should

spend all of her waking moments trying to eradicate institutionally racism from the Met Police.

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