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Matt Benson

A former British Diplomat and Civil Servant who served across West and South Asia, and Africa, including Bangladesh, D.R. Congo, Haiti, Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan and South Sudan. He managed the UK humanitarian emergency response to genocide in Gaza in 2014. He quit after a 17-year career due to UK Government crimes in Pakistan and the unrelenting abuse in the aid sector to become an investigative writer focused on indigenous struggle, government corruption, and resistance to colonialism, imperialism, fascism and white supremacy.

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Opinion · October 2026
Sacha Baron Cohen traded the burnt cork for a costume. Ali G is still blackface.
Ali G, Borat and The Dictator put a wealthy white man in the costume of the people he mocks. Matt Benson on why that is blackface, and why the Daily Mail is defending it.