Newsnight covers the story that schools are becoming increasingly racially polarised as 'parents choose to send their children to schools that reflect their own ethnic background'.
Tales of 95% white schools... 95% 'non white' schools... trevor phillips wheeled in to say it is a disaster for the country...
Of course, nobody dares to actually speak the obvious; that most immigrants do not want to assimilate, and the local population do not want to lose their own identity.
Bearing in mind the cycles of history that tend to repeat themselves, perhaps trevor phillips will indeed be proven right. Unfortunately Enoch Powell was 'the wrong colour', or maybe people might actually have listened to him and avoided all this.
Tales of 95% white schools... 95% 'non white' schools... trevor phillips wheeled in to say it is a disaster for the country...
Of course, nobody dares to actually speak the obvious; that most immigrants do not want to assimilate, and the local population do not want to lose their own identity.
Bearing in mind the cycles of history that tend to repeat themselves, perhaps trevor phillips will indeed be proven right. Unfortunately Enoch Powell was 'the wrong colour', or maybe people might actually have listened to him and avoided all this.
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