My god, sometimes history slaps you in the face. I was just walking to Waterloo Station when a man nervously approached me and asked me if I was Somali. I was listening to loud Sudanese music on my headphones and first said no then yes.
Cont... He was a gaunt man in his 20s or early 30s with sharp cheekbones and bright eyes with flecks of blood from them. He said he had just arrived from France by dinghy and had nowhere to stay or go.

70 years ago Queen Elizabeth took the throne, 70 years ago Mahmood Hussein Mattan was charged, convicted and hanged for a murder he didn't commit in Cardiff.
#PlatinumJubilee On the case file you can see where Rex was replaced with Regina but this was still a country with a death penalty, concentration camps in Kenya, a 'colour bar' that imposed segregation in jobs, housing, and social life.