India, July 2 -- As a landmark inquiry lays bare a generation of educational failure, a Telegraph investigation exposes job schemes closed to white applicants, and demographic projections warn of a white British minority by 2063-these are questions polite society can no longer avoid. IBNS reports

There is a town in the English Midlands - it could be any of a dozen - where the steel mill closed thirty years ago and never came back. Where the high street is half empty, the school results are among the worst in the county, and a significant portion of the young men have simply stopped looking for work.

The people who live there are, overwhelmingly, white and working class. And for a very long time, they have felt like the one group in Brit...