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Has the term ‘racist’ become devalued through overuse?

Quite possibly. But racism remains all too real today – even though half the British population deny it exists

Adam Rutherford
Desecrated graves at the East Ham Jewish Cemetery, London, in 2005. Getty Images
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    Keon West

    Picador, pp. 352, £18

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