I see that thing is trending. That thing. You know what, I’m rather concerned about woke excess, especially when it’s engineered out of careerism. But sometimes it takes the smallest detail to make you realise what white privilege is. Decades ago I used to share a house

That one time a black guy came to see a room as a guy was leaving. We had a brief chat, we got on, I could see he’d fit in and I offered him the room when he said he was interested. Easy. Except shortly after he moved in, he told me about his experience househunting

He said he’d come to see a room and he could instantly see some people had *that* look. That look that said “oh so you’re... yeah you’re not getting the room although they’d never say why. It made me realise that I had never thought about that before and I understood that day