Well my mum's side are all from Salford and Prestwich, an area with one of the biggest Jewish populations in the UK, and my grandad worked on Salford docks all his life. For decades my mum and dad lived on the Bury/Radcliffe border, an area which has huge numbers of Muslims. I taught in Poplar in the seventies when there were large numbers of second-generation West Indian kids in my school (40% of the school population). I then moved to a school in Walthamstow in which over a third of the kids were from Muslim families.

So this...

"If you are lucky enough to live somewhere unaffected by the trouble, keep your gob shut on the subject.

"The utter bullshit YOU and STEVE are spouting is the Hampstead Corbyn line that was so far out of touch with reality that we have Boris in Number 10.

You have no shame about the utter rubbish you talk, and the situation you have created. I worked in multi racial schools and gigged and recorded all over Europe...."

...is just about the most unreal bloody claptrap I've heard in years. I might live in Cornwall now (by far the most xenophobic and racist area I've ever lived in, despite the lovely scenery, as it happens, and I do fight back) but I've seen just as much, if not more, real life as you, Al, and I resent being tarred with the lame old metropolitan elite brush. By the way, it's not Hampstead but I won't dwell. And I'm rather proud of the fact that, in all my years in schools, I never once let a racist remark pass unchallenged in any of my classrooms. The instinct lives on, which is why I'm objecting now to some of your comments. I don't think you can say that of yourself, considering the occasional detestable comment you relieve yourself of in this forum.