The faux-radicalism of Kneecap
The police shouldn’t waste their time investigating rappers.
The members of Kneecap must be delighted. As a rap group with anti-establishment pretensions – albeit one whose biopic was awarded a BAFTA earlier this year – what better publicity than being ‘assessed’ by the British police for their controversial comments? Specifically, footage has been circulating of a Kneecap gig from November 2023 in which one of t…
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