In a city renowned for its bitter sectarian divide, it can’t be a good idea for the Scottish TUC to urge Celtic fans to wave Palestinian flags at their team’s match with Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv. Surely this falls foul of Celtic’s own code of conduct, which states supporters at the ground would be guilty of “disorderly conduct” if they stir up “hatred or ill-will towards individuals or groups of people” because of “national origin”.
Why is it that members of West Indian and Asian communities living in the UK, who in many cases must be the second or third generation born in this country, usually still have identifiably “ethnic accents”? Not exactly going to help them integrate, is it? You don’t find people of Polish ancestry whose grandparents settled here after the war still talking in a Polish accent – usually the only identifiably Polish thing about them is their surname. Mind you, a lot of blacks in the US still seem to talk in a black patois even though they’ve been there for over two hundred years. I always think subtitles are needed when listening to the racist crap spouted by Jesse Jackson.
