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British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers the keynote speech at a Labour conference in Liverpool, Britain, Sept. 26, 2016. Photo: Reuters / Phil Noble. JNS.org – There is, in Britain, a long tradition of holding public inquiries to establish the facts and learn the appropriate lessons from a host of social and political challenges. The range of inquiry subjects have included, among others, child abuse, the use of nuclear power, and the 2003 Iraq war. Some of these inquiries have had such a powerful impact that they continue to be talked about decades later (which, incidentally, is why many Brits are expecting that the present Brexit debacle will one day enthrall them with the inquiry of inquiries). In 1999, the distinguished British judge Sir William Macpherson chaired an inquiry into the UK authorities’ handling of the brutal murder of a black Londoner, Stephen Lawrence. In April 1993, the 19-year-old was racially abused and then fatally stabbed by a gang of white racists at a bus stop. Six years later, the case against his murderers collapsed largely because of — as Macpherson’s report put it — a “a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism, and a failure of leadership.” That concept of “institutional racism” became firmly planted in British public policy, and has since emerged in other contexts. The most unlikely of these, given its political traditions and its historic links with the Jewish comm
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British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers the keynote speech at a Labour conference in Liverpool, Britain, Sept. 26, 2016. Photo: Reuters / Phil Noble. JNS.org – There is, in Britain, a long tradition of holding public inquiries to establish the facts and learn the appropriate lessons from a host of social and political challenges. The range of inquiry subjects have included, among others, child abuse, the use of nuclear power, and the 2003 Iraq war. Some of these inquiries have had such a powerful impact that they continue to be talked about decades later (which, incidentally, is why many Brits are expecting that the present Brexit debacle will one day enthrall them with the inquiry of inquiries). In 1999, the distinguished British judge Sir William Macpherson chaired an inquiry into the UK authorities’ handling of the brutal murder of a black Londoner, Stephen Lawrence. In April 1993, the 19-year-old was racially abused and then fatally stabbed by a gang of white racists at a bus stop. Six years later, the case against his murderers collapsed largely because of — as Macpherson’s report put it — a “a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism, and a failure of leadership.” That concept of “institutional racism” became firmly planted in British public policy, and has since emerged in other contexts. The most unlikely of these, given its political traditions and its historic links with the Jewish comm
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