What it affirms is a rational and optimistic approach to the difficulties of absorbing the ethnic minorities into the mainstream of British life. Lord Scarman’s Report breathes the pragmatic spirit of British reform. Its recommendations are all the more forceful for being couched in the language of restraint and civility. They are now being considered by Whitehall at the same time as those of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee report on racial disadvantage. Fears of nuclear war, economic collapse and imminent Armageddon have set doomsday groups, with tens of thousands of followers throughout the American West, stockpiling weapons and food.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2016 00:06 UTC