When I was a teenager, and prone to overlapping love affairs as teenagers often are, I found myself abandoned by one girl in favour of a white boy, and found another at the expense of a Muslim. I didn’t join the Black Panthers, and, as far as I can glean from his profile page, he didn’t join Isis either.
Apparently, however, we’d have been within our rights to do so, at least according to an article in today’s Sun about Thomas Mair, the white supremacist who was this week imprisoned for life for his assassination of Jo Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen. “Jo Cox murderer Thomas Mair became Nazi obsessed white supremacist after his mum left the family for black boyfriend” is the headline.
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