Council leader John Cotton has called for a clampdown on social media providers who allow racist commentary to go unchecked Birmingham residents are facing 'blatant racism' that harks back to the worst examples of the 1970s, the city council's leader has warned. Coun John Cotton said he was 'horrified' by some of the rhetoric repeated online and in person, in open forums and to people's faces, in ways that he thought had been consigned to history. The Labour leader, whose own family includes people of different ethnicities, said it was vital poor behaviour was stood against and action taken. READ...