Black Mail

Royal Mail is celebrating Black History Month by painting four whole postboxes a colour that isn't on the Union Jack and decorating them with paragraphs about prominent black people. A prominent white employee congratulated Black History Month on its inclusive credentials and boasted about the number of black people employed by Royal Mail "from the mailbag to the meeting room," although he doesn't seem to have specified the exact proportions. The gesture provoked predictable derision from the kind of people who probably think free British housing should be given to benefits claimants, Irish and dogs, and whose obsession with warrior wokeness prevents their recalling that the Royal Mail has been in the vanguard of this race relations thingy ever since the first modern postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued to commemorate the unpretentious cheapness of Negro labour.