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John Sweeney's avatar

We read a lot in various online media about British attempts to suppress racial competition. Would be great if you wrote about it.

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Patrick Heren's avatar

Dear Fr Alex

20 years ago we had a holiday in a 17th c hunting lodge outside the unfashionable but fascinating little city of Piazza Armerina. It belonged to an aristocratic family resident in Palermo, 100 miles away. The caretaker, who lived in a comfortable farmhouse nearby, was a recently retired Rome police detective in his early 50's. It soon became clear that he was also a mafioso. His other gig was ownership of the stationery concession at the local hospital. Nice work if you can get it, though to be fair I don't think he worked much there. One evening, over a barbecue that he insisted we should invite him to, he asked who we had noticed working on the roads in Sicily. When we struggled to answer, he suggested that we would only have seen Sicilians working on the roads, and doing other manual labour. You will not have seen dark-skinned people working, as you would in other European countries, he smirked. A few years ago some Pakistanis arrived in the area and got work laying tarmac. Then one of them found himself trussed up and suspended over a bonfire. After that, he said, his friends left, and since then such work has been done once more only by locals. He was revoltingly pleased by this cautionary tale.

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