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Why the UK banned Kanye West - podcast

Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headliner When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the…

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Why the UK banned Kanye West - podcast

Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headliner When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate. “He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare , the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal . “Embracing neo-Nazi imagery, pushing out far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish people.” Continue reading...

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