Britain's Risky Race-Baiting

In 1977, my father decided that my education would not be complete until he had taken me to a left-wing demonstration. We took a bus to London and there joined a protest against a neo-Nazi outfit called the National Front, which was threatening to smash up areas of London with large Pakistani populations. "Go home," the neo-Nazis chanted, "Pakis go home."

Even at the tender age of 16, I grasped how un-British their slogans were. They claimed to be patriots but venerated Nazism, which true British patriots had fought a world war...