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No guilt, no apology

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

Convicted of murder, Derek Bromley can teach us all a lesson about saying sorry when we are not guilty. And he has something in common with US President Donald Trump. I say this in the context of those never-ending instances of trial by social media and by feverish activists anywhere, who claim some utterances are offensive – usually racist, that much overused, little understood epithet.

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