The dream that we are now one people

The misrepresentation and misuse, over and over, of oratory by Dr King and words imputed to Lt Gov Hobson

On the kitchen wall in our decrepit flat in Creswick Terrace we had a cartoon clipping sellotaped to the wall, the final frame to a long-running adventure in The Phantom.

In this frame, Mr Walker, the ghost who walks, The Phantom, is home at last having despatched countless murderous villains and escaped impossible jeopardy at every turn, cheating death …