Faux fury against the race report is unsurprising

Back in the 1960s, my brother Asim and I were smitten by the magical Manchester United trio of Law, Best and Charlton. We became London Reds and travelled on the MU Supporters’ Club coach to Old Trafford to watch our team — and we always went to see them play London clubs. But we stopped going in the 1970s; we feared for our physical safety. Marauding bands of skinheads outside the grounds were on the lookout for a spot of Paki-bashing. Instead, during the 1970s, we went on Anti-Nazi League marches and routinely confronted members of the National Front, a fascist party that was briefly the UK’s fourth-largest party in terms of vote share.

Today, Paki-bashing is now largely history, as is the National Front; as are the many egregiously offensive and racist attitudes and behaviour that were our everyday experience back then. The UK is a far better place to live now than it was 50 years ago.