This book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. It asks whether populist views that there should be a British identity - or a Scottish, Irish or Welsh one - will prevail.

It covers events in politics and education that have left most white British people ignorant of the Empire, the often brutal de-colonisation and the arrival of immigrants from post-colonial and European countries. It discusses politics and practices in education, race, religion and migration that have left schools and universities failing to engage with a multiracial and multicultural society.