Greta Thunberg and Gary Lineker sign letter defending Southbank Centre chair

Misan Harriman accused of promoting Golders Green attack ‘conspiracies’ and comparing Reform voters to Nazis Greta Thunberg, Tracey Emin and Gary Lineker are among those to sign an open letter in support of Southbank Centre chair Misan Harriman, after what they call a “dishonest smear campaign” by media outlets that accused him of promoting Golders Green attack “conspiracies” and comparing Reform voters to Nazis. Harriman, who has been chair of the Southbank Centre’s board of governors since 2021, was accused by the Telegraph of sharing a social media post that contained a “conspiracy” about the Golders Green attack because it questioned the amount of coverage given to the Muslim victim, Ishmail Hussein. Critics of Harriman said the repost risked minimising the antisemitic nature of the attack. David Taylor, the Labour MP for Hemel Hempstead, said: “These posts are not only incredibly inappropriate for the chair of a charity board, but for anyone in the public eye.” The Telegraph ran a story with the headline “Southbank Centre chief ‘compares Reform victory to Holocaust’” after the activist quoted Susan Sontag in a video giving his thoughts after Reform’s historic local election re