I saw this little piece in the Grauniad, read a few paras and skipped the rest. Just not my kind of stuff.
Imagine my surprise upon reading this at Crooked Timber.
From the Guardian:

Thirty years ago a
book by a Grenadian writer about the number of black British children
being sent to schools for the educationally subnormal caused outrage in
the community. Here author Bernard Coard describes how the ‘ESN book’
came to be written and its relevance to today’s black children

Chris at CT:

it seems to me to be remarkable that the Guardian fails to mention that this is the same Bernard Coard
who led a Stalinist coup-d’etat against the Maurice Bishop, charismatic
leader of the New Jewel Movement. Bishop and several other people were
arrested on Coard’s orders and shot. This gave Ronald Reagan an excuse
to invade the island. Coard was subsequently sentenced to death, but
this was commuted to life imprisonment, and Coard is still in gaol.

You might think, as I do (and apparently Chris does) that this might be worth mentioning?

The intro is interesting…."Every so often the Guardian brings me up short." to which Peter Briffa in the comments asks "Every so often..???". Quite.