
It first reared its ugly head here when student unions started objecting to students wearing sombreros on the grounds that it was offensive to Mexicans. Like the statue-toppling BLM nonsense, the clamour to stamp out so-called 'cultural appropriation' started in the United States.

Have you ever read such a pompous, self-serving parcel of tosh? Who on earth could be offended, other than the usual demented bunch of self-appointed 'social justice' censors currently running riot everywhere? Or has the Navaho nation relocated to Warwickshire while we weren't looking? 'We believe that cultural appropriation and, therefore, the wearing of faux Native American head-dresses has the potential to cause offence and doesn't align with our values.' Not in the eyes of the stuffed blazers who run Wasps.


I don't do fancy dress on principle, but surely wearing a Red Indian head-dress to a rugby match is nothing more than a bit of harmless fun. During last year's Summer Of Stupidity, sparked by the Black Lives Matter madness, I wondered how long it would be before the woke brigade got round to banning Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones
