Do we need black people on our banknotes? | Afua Hirsch

I hesitated before supporting the campaign for representation. But the Bank of England’s feeble response convinced me it’s neededUsually, when a new campaign to rectify our national failure to acknowledge black ingenuity in building modern Britain comes along, I support it enthusiastically. I’ve backed the critique of our statues, for example, which promote white supremacists as heroes and ignore people of colour; and of our curriculum, which promotes ignorance about the racial