Truth and Reconciliation

Dismantling the myths of the Macpherson Report and the murder of Stephen Lawrence

The Macpherson Report: How The British Police Became Anti-White

Stephen Lawrence, son of Jamaican immigrants, was murdered in Eltham in April 1993. There immediately began an investigation that would encompass 1,600 people, consumed huge resources and have the active involvement of the Met Police Commissioner. Within a few hours of the murder, the Commission for Racial Equality had been told by police that the murder was a racist one, and within a day, the Lawrence family was surrounded by aggressively anti-white extremists whose activism goes under the name ‘race relations’, as in the Race Relations Acts of Parliament, Britain’s equivalent to ‘civil rights’ in the USA, and started originally by Anthony Lester, a Jewish lawyer who had learned about 'civil rights’ during a spell over there and decided to bring the same disease to Britain. Richard Stone was a later leading member of the Runnymede Trust, which Lester co-founded.

Over the years 1993-7, the police exhausted every possible means of trying to charge and convict whoever killed Lawrence. Unusually, the bereaved parents quickly ‘lawyered up’ with Imran Khan, a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party (not the Socialist Alliance as I say in the recording), acting for them in a peculiar manner highly antagonistic toward the police. Later, the subversive lawyer Michael Mansfield and his team joined the cause. The funding for years of service by these lawyers remains unexplained. After three of ‘the suspects’ (according to a trial by media) were acquitted of the murder, the ‘Stephen Lawrence campaign’ secured a promise from the incoming Labour Home Secretary, Jack Straw, of a public inquiry into whether the police could be condemned as racist. After a blatantly biased inquiry led by William Macpherson in 1998, it turned out that, indeed, the government, i.e. the appointers of the police, could indeed condemn them as racist no matter how earnestly they had tried to do politicians’ bidding in the years before. Richard Stone, Lester’s successor as a leading anti-white organiser, was one of Macpherson’s three advisers.

In this podcast, Morgoth, Millennial Woes and I discuss the murder, the inquiry and related matters in some detail.

I read the following:

The Macpherson Report

The Case of Stephen Lawrence, a book by the leftist Irish journalist Brian Cathcart.

Racist Murder and Pressure Group Politics by Norman Dennis, George Erdos and Ahmed al-Shahi, a liberal-left critique of ‘race relations’ as practiced at the Macpherson Inquiry.

The unpublished book about the murder and the inquiry that I mention near the end of the podcast.

Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, a book by Richard Stone of the Inquiry, the Jewish Council on Racial Equality and a range of other ‘race relations’ organisations. Sadiq Khan was a comrade.

Richard Stone on the right, sitting

‘Anti-racist’ material like this edition of Campaign Against Racism and Fascism from the time of the Macpherson Report, composed by Liz Fekete, the anti-white head of the Institute of Race Relations (co-founded by Anthony Lester of the Runnymede Trust).

Searching for relevant news stories about the murder and the aftermath gives an idea of the political atmosphere and the evolving media approach. The media drove the agenda as much as the political activists.

I also watched documentaries including:

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (BBC, 2018)

The Siege of Scotland Yard (BBC, 1999)

Playing the Race Card (BBC, 1999). This was peak Blair-era BBC content. Notice the triumphancy.