Dame Louise Casey must have chuckled inwardly yesterday. Even before she had said a word about her report on social integration, commissioned by David Cameron, the blustering started. You know that you’ve hit the target when the BBC marshals a line-up of “ordinary” people who protest their desire to “integrate”, and the usual suspects attack any factual evidence as “slanted”, “Islamophobic” and even “racist”.
The aim of this verbal onslaught is to silence any deviation from the elite orthodoxy: all minority disadvantage must be the product of white bigotry. A close friend of mine wryly observes that many white liberal activists cannot imagine that anything, good or bad, happens to black or brown folk without their permission. [The Telegraph] Read more
