Very cool you highlighted this, its something incredibly important that could be missed, is being missed, thanks for the article. I've put in a list because I know I will probably refer to it, next time I get dragged into the swamp, which probably won't be long.

Sorry to hear of your early experiences of UK, I remember those days too, when, if I am honest, us kids were brought up to be racist, and it wasn't even the fault of parents, it was a racist system that trained everyone to be racist. I guess you probably know that too.

In the neighborhoods I lived in, having windows broken was an every day risk, if it wasn't stones thrown, it was footballs, glass bottles, cricket balls, baseballs, cricket bats, baseball bats, chairs, sometimes from inside, sometimes from outside.

I remember a friend and I had to dodge a chair coming out through a city pub window once, in Glasgow in the seventies. We were about ten years old then, and the friend and I parted company before we became adults, I heard he was jailed for murder later, in a street mugging as part of a gang. I am glad I was lucky enough to have moved away from there before then, but it did change to become "European City of Culture" in the nineties when I was back there studying as an undergraduate.

Anyhow, thanks again for your article.