The Wireless Festival fiasco has been embarrassing, baffling — and entirely predictable. It’s been a nasty look under the rock of the mercenary entertainment industry, at the cowardice of Sir Keir Starmer’s government, and our inability to differentiate between corporate apology and restorative justice. Let’s unpack the whole sordid affair.
Last week, Ye, the American rapper formerly known as Kanye West, was announced as the headliner for a three-day music festival in Finsbury Park. Tickets were already on sale before the blindingly obvious backlash blew up in the organisers’ faces.
