Rising White Disadvantage in Academia
By Max Musson: In a recent five-year study conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and paid for by the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, it is revealed that indigenous British youngsters are now significantly less likely to be accepted as undergraduates at British universities than people other, minority ethnic groups. The statistics presented in the report show that in 2008: of those school students who described themselves…
The Bite of the Adder, or can only Whites be Racist?
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…
Tory Toffs, Cosmopolitanism and Greed
By Max Musson: Boris Johnson delivered a speech yesterday revealing much about the spirit motivating the Conservative Party and the upper echelons of our society currently. Johnson, who is of course the Mayor of London and who comes from a privileged background with lineages extending back to British royalty as well as to continental aristocrats, likes to project the rather eccentric image of an affable, well-meaning, and oftentimes inspired buffoon and ‘man of the people’,…