Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headliner
When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate.
“He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare,the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal. “Embracing neo-Nazi imagery, pushing out far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish people.”
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