In the increasingly insane world of identity politics, in which an accusation of racism has become akin to a sentence of social and career death, perhaps the worst feature of all is that an accused person is guilty until proved innocent. That was certainly how the BBC interpreted the allegation by Azeem Rafiq that Michael Vaughan had used racist language towards him, an accusation of which Vaughan was cleared on Friday – though on what the Cricket Discipline Commission’s panel called ‘the balanc
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Russians and Belarusians will be allowed to play if they sign neutrality agreements.
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