The ex-Home Secretary’s memoir of childhood racism is intimate and moving but raises difficult political questions The ex-Home Secretary’s memoir of childhood racism is intimate and moving but raises difficult political questions S ajid Javid’s memoir traces his journey from being a frightened child in racist 1970s Rochdale to becoming a leading member of a political party that attacks and marginalises people like him. However, it is an intimate, and sometimes moving, family portrait as well as