This week, Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe claimed Britain has been ‘colonised’ by immigrants. In an interview with Sky News, he said: “You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. “I mean, the UK is being colonised. It’s costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants.” He apologised for his use of words, said he was sorry that his remarks ‘caused concern’, and said it was important to ‘raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth’. But by then everyone was also bandying...