The Big Issue

Is the term ‘white privilege’ leaving working-class kids neglected?

HOW IT WAS TOLD

Log in to social media for more than five minutes and you’ll be familiar with the culture wars.

The never-ending world wide web wars over the woke, the white privilege and the rest are a point of division on Twitter, Facebook and more.

A report released last week by MPs in the Education Select Committee was accused

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