When Politics Invades the Playground
This week a story has obsessed the media almost as much as the continuing Brexit saga, it is the story of a Syrian school boy named as Jamal, a refugee whose family have been relocated to Huddersfield and who now attends Almondbury Community School in that town. A video has been posted on the internet showing an English boy wrestling an Asian boy, allegedly Jamal, to the ground, whereupon the English boy proceeds to pour…
Scots Wha’ Hae?
By Heordredenn: Ethnic minorities in Scotland have doubled as a percentage of the population in just ten years, according to official 2011 Census results published on 26th September. According to the 2001 Census, ethnic minorities made up 2% of the Scots population. By the 2011 one, this had doubled to 4%. Three-quarters of these minorities were ethnic Asians, who now make up 3% of the inhabitants of Scotland. The remainder include Negroids of various origins.…