The March of the Ethnics

There's something comical about today's Daily Express headline

It's probably something to do with how old-fashioned it sounds. As Ed West says "Monty Burns is the only person I've heard use the word 'ethnics'".

We're all ethnics these days, pigeon-holed by racially coded identity, and petitioning for 'rights' not as individual Britons or Freeborne Englishmen but by ethnic affiliation. That is Blair's legacy; that is Britishness and New Labour's New Britain.