MICHAEL MORRIS: Luxury of finger pointing while the poor take a beating
Columnist Ismail Lagardien wrongly accuses the Institute of Race Relations of putting the economy ahead of saving lives
03 May 2020 - 21:44
Some commentators on the lockdown have strived to make a case for what seems a superior kind of caring, one that disdains the implicitly selfish and grubby business of the “economy” in favour of the altogether more estimable virtue of “lives”.
A few tolerate the inseparability of the two, but most invariably reach a point where the temptation to pursue proxy ideological warfare proves too great, and so leave the path of reason...
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