All publicity is good publicity, and the people who booked Kanye West knew that as well as he did. He has not applied for a visa to enter the United Kingdom, and there has never been any chance that he would have been granted one, but that has always been the point.
A visa ban, never mind a full-blown exclusion order, would sell truckloads of West's material to a generation of Britons that until then had been barely, if at all, aware of his existence. If the stakeholders in Wireless Festival had no stake in that, then, well, it is impossible to finish that sentence. Of course they are in.
But who should be out? While perish the thought that the politicians who decided these things, or at the very least their parties and the like, might eventually benefit from some trickle-down, on the principles that would be cited to prevent West's entry, who else should be similarly inhibited, and why?
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