Cultures and Groups

Pride & prejudice: How the far right muscled in on middle England (Independent)

13 May 2008

'Billy Blair? Yeah, he's a friend of ours. He's a good bloke." It's not unusual to hear local shopkeepers back their newly elected councillor straight after an election. What is extraordinary is that here in Maltby, Rotherham, Will Blair has just won the seat for the BNP and the shopkeeper in question is Birmingham-born British Asian Kaz Singh.

A career of connections (Rapid City Journal)

13 May 2008

By Laura Tonkyn, Journal staff

Letters: Primary, languages, Lyme (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

13 May 2008

This week's letters deal with lessons learned from the Pennsylvania primary, the question of how much foreign-language instruction should be required in public schools, and how Lyme disease is diagnosed and treated.