Hannah Yelin: It's not only Laurence Fox who should raise questions for the BBC after last week's Question Time

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Hannah Yelin: It's not only Laurence Fox who should raise questions for the BBC after last week's Question Time
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What is far more concerning in this racism row – and yet has gone entirely unscrutinised – is Fiona Bruce’s response as an independent chair of the debate

The exchange between Boyle and Fox ended with the actor accusing a woman of colour of “being racist”, as part of the charge that identifying his white privilege is in itself racist, rather than simply illustrative of why he might not personally experience the UK as a place which can be hostile to people of colour.

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