Three researchers from Leicester University’s Centre for Hate Studies produced a curious report on Monday about the English countryside. Their theme is that much of rural England is a white racist redoubt, where anyone from an ethnic minority is made to feel unwelcome and psychologically, if not physically, excluded. People of colour, it is said, find themselves unaccepted, stared at, and occasionally insulted or worse. Serious measures, we are told, are called for to remove this injustice.

You could dismiss this as yet another predictable production from a group of tiresomely progressive academics. And in a sense you would have a point. The name of the authoring group, the Centre for Hate Studies, says a lot; and in addition, one of the authors is the same academic who was commissioned f

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