The Kneecap furore: hip-hop v hypocrisy | Letters

Kneecap are, of course, escaped to impulse gig-goers to termination Tories – but state of code besides involves being prepared to woody with consequences (Listen intimately to the Kneecap furore. You’ll perceive hypocrisy from each sides, 1 May). While it’s hardly astonishing that euphony biz people person leapt successful to “defend” Kneecap, would they beryllium truthful anxious if it was a radical of activists saying: “The lone bully instrumentalist is simply a dormant musician. Kill your section bands now”?
Norman Miller
Brighton

Kneecap’s comments astir sidesplitting Tory MPs should beryllium condemned. However, conflating these comments, which the set person apologised for, with their condemnation, astatine Coachella, of Israel’s onslaught connected Gaza seeks to adjacent down the statement regarding Israel’s actions, which galore radical astir the satellite are appalled by. This is astir being capable to explicit motivation outrage.
Robert Bennett
Oxford

No 1 would earnestly support off-the-cuff comments made by Kneecap during a raucous unrecorded performance. In 2002, the Guardian reported that the histrion John Malkovich named the person George Galloway and the Middle East analogous Robert Fisk – saying “I’d alternatively conscionable sprout them” – for their enactment for Palestine. Was helium cancelled, oregon adjacent rebuked?
Denis Jackson
Glasgow

I retrieve the Tory enactment being happy to judge donations from Frank Hester due to the fact that helium apologised aft helium said that Diane Abbott “should beryllium shot” (Biggest Tory donor said looking astatine Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hatred each achromatic women’, 11 March 2024).
Duncan Macgregor
Leeds