Here follows a diverse selection of quotes from news pieces great and small in today’s British national press.  A feast of shockingly inconvenient truths lurk in each story.  However, our beloved news folk, ever optimistic about the free, vibrant future of Babylon, avoid all that - and feed us this stuff instead:-

Jack Straw, stoking up his leadership bid: With all the caveats, I would prefer women not to wear the veil.

… Communities are bound together partly by informal chance relations between strangers - people being able to acknowledge each other in the street or being able pass the time of day.  That’s made more difficult if people are wearing a veil.

David Davis, the alleged right-wing Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on John Reid’s sudden interest in how immigration overtakes the infrastructure: At long last the Home Secretary looks like he is coming round to our way of thinking. We have consistently been saying that immigration can be of benefit to the country but only if it is properly controlled.

Dr Jamil Sherif, optimistic secretary of the research committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, swallowing some government spin: The ONS report highlights the ethnic and religious diversity in Brent and Harrow. Both local authority districts have good community relations and cohesion - which shows multiculturalism works.

Windsor Council leader Mary-Rose Gliksten, fiddling away furiously while the on-going dairy riots between English and Asian youths in the town get as far as petrol bombs by the roadside: We have got a long and proud history of our community relations in Windsor and we regret incidents that have happened this week. We will be doing everything to calm the situation.

A BBC News source commenting on newsreader Fiona Bruce’s dhimmitudinous removal of her cross necklace: It was argued that BBC staff on screen should not wear anything which hints or directly points to a political or religious leaning and that the cross contravened this and should not be allowed.

A “friend” of Premiership footballer, Lua Lua, after the Congolese “star’s” arrest for allegedly beating up his fiancée at 2am in a hotel room: Natalie is his long-term girlfriend but he does put himself around.  None of his children are hers.

Natalie lives with him but when he’s clubbing it’s with his male friends, not her.  Girls swoon over him because he’s a star.

The mother of murdered black teenager Anthony Walker, on the pathetic inadequate who posted offensive rubbish on Anthony’s tribute site, and got 2 years and 8 months: Hitler started with an idea, slavery started with an idea, so it is good that this was stopped in time.

And just one little note of truth, but not coming out of real life events ... just an opinion piece from the most censorious Multicult-lover in the game …

Ugandan Asian journo Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, lambasting us as usual in The Independent: There is another island nation which fears the stranger, wants high walls to keep out the multiracial wash, is pitiless in its rejection of non Anglo-Saxon peoples and their ways - curries notwithstanding. (Remember 87 per cent of Britain is white and 75 per cent Christian.).  Here things are getting appallingly hostile.  The anti-Muslim riots in Windsor, the whites who voted for the BNP in Barking, blatant and shameless middle-class racism makes me wonder if there is a future for the Britain I praise.  Muslim separatist fanatics feed the prejudiced.  In small pockets there is a ghetto mentality if not quite the reality.  White no-go localities are becoming lethal places for outsiders.

… Inter-ethnic and inter-religious rancour increases among the young and most-educated too.  State policies have heightened tribal consciousness; unemployment rates among British-born ethnic groups are twice that of whites …