The title of a 1953 novel by Flannery O’Connor proves perennial: a good man is hard to find.
In an attempt to address the complex issues surrounding Karim Khan’s arrest warrants against Israeli leaders alongside his own allegations of sexual misconduct, I ended up writing about failures of accountability I see everywhere for the Canary.
This is an issue that keeps coming up in life at the moment. Individuals and groups, whose whole raison d’être is supposedly accountability, need to get their houses in order. From prosecutors to club owners, from politicians to activists, there are hypocrites all over.
Far from being disparate issues, all it does is kill hope for the future and show that a lack of accountability — or a lack of the processes in place to achieve it — is endemic. We need more groups capable of leading by example, not implementing hierarchies of horror and disappointment. Otherwise it is difficult to maintain faith that those claiming to fight for a better world are at all capable of building one.