It is not often that I return to the same topic so soon, but in light of a second article published on the Daily Mail website, reinforcing the points made in their original report, I feel it is pertinent to do so in this instance. On Tuesday May 24th the BBC are to broadcast a programme entitled ‘Last Whites of the East End’, documenting the dwindling to near extinction of the indigenous White people of…

By Michael Woodbridge: “Take up the White Man’s burden And reap his old reward, the blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard…” When the United States relieved Spain of the responsibility for administering the Philippines, Kipling wrote these words to his friend Theodore Roosevelt, as a warning about the consequences of taking on an imperial role. Likewise, Mark Twain declared that the colours of the American flag should be changed from…