{"id":50627,"date":"2020-06-08T13:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=50627"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:56:17","slug":"understanding-the-bristolian-politics-of-edward-colston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/08\/understanding-the-bristolian-politics-of-edward-colston\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Bristolian politics of Edward Colston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/bristol-church-refuses-host-most-782798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from Bristol Live<\/a> in 2017:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13-550x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13-550x614.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13-269x300.png 269w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13-768x857.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13-1376x1536.png 1376w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13-358x400.png 358w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-08-at-13.52.13.png 1622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The white, male, decidedly privileged, elite.<\/p>\n<p>These were the people who were really tipped into Bristol harbour yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Them, and their political friends.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the government is annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>And staggering that this happened so recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from Bristol Live in 2017: The white, male, decidedly privileged, elite. These were the people who were really tipped into Bristol harbour yesterday.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/08\/understanding-the-bristolian-politics-of-edward-colston\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-lives-matter","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}