Is society so hell-bent on denying the reality of racial difference that we’d rather die than deal with it? Some days I think the answer is “yes.” Just when the reality-containment bands are stretched to the breaking point, along comes something that lets us continue indulging our equality-and-rainbows delusion just a bit longer. A buzzing economy. A two-term black president who... 

The message in the letter to immigrant communities in Belfast could not be starker or more brutal. “Get out of our Queen’s country before our bonfire night and parade day,” it declared. Emblazoned with a skull, it descended into a mixture of the semi-literate and the directly threatening with the warning: “Other than your building will be blown up.” The leaflet was delivered... 

THEY'RE HERE: Former KKK Grand Imperial Wizard Johnny Lee Clary in Perth. He says Klan violence is not limited to the US. The feared American racist organisation Ku Klux Klan has infiltrated Perth, a senior US-based KKK leader has claimed. Speaking from Arkansas, Thomas Robb, the US national director of the major Klan faction, The Knights Party, told The Sunday Times that the group — infamous...