On Saturday 10th October there was a story on Reuters UK which was not to be found in any major newspaper. This was a demonstration in which “around 2,000 rival protesters congregated in the Piccadilly Gardens area [of Manchester].” Skirmishes erupted between the English Defence League, a far right group, protesting against what they called "radical Islam" and campaigners from Unite Against Fascism. 48 people were arrested. This article will not deal with overt racists and would-be terrorists but rather the press and politicians who do take the headlines of the mass media and the people who absorb this information. The election of two candidates from the racist British National Party to the European parliament last June has brought the issue of social integration to the very forefront of public debate and made it impossible to dismiss the party as a fringe organisation. Rather, multiculturalism must be approached in such a way as to rescue British nationalism from t ...