The Black Lives Matter protests should awaken politicians to the fact that real change is needed – and urgently

Editorial: Black people in Britain are still twice as likely as white people to die in police custody, and yet no officer has ever faced any kind of prosecution over such a death

Mass protests do not always yield change, but they do have a tendency to illuminate the right side of history. There are few people around now who would argue that the hundreds of thousands that took to the streets in 2003 over the Iraq War had called it wrong.

The more than half a million who have marched against Brexit on more than one occasion are also highly likely to find themselves entirely vindicated in the not too distant future.

The scale of the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread all around the world from their gruesome beginnings on the pavement outside a Minneapolis deli reveal the depth of the problem, and the UK is no exception.