Nepal, Oct. 30 -- A little storm erupted recently in the United Kingdom when a sitting member of parliament declared during a TV phone-in that "it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people". She complained that non-whites do not reflect British society and rued that the "average white person, average white family" does not feature any more on TV. Following the expected furore, the MP, Sarah Pochin of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, has since said that her comment was "phrased poorly" even as she insisted that the TV ads were indeed "unrepresentative of British society".

With her party riding high on the ever-rising populist backlash against newcomers common to practically all of the West, it is no su...