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Hugo Rifkind

If Ukip aren't racist, how come so many racists seem to like them?

Racism is only rarely a secret card you put in your wallet. More often, you carry it without knowing it's there

3 May 2014

9:00 AM

3 May 2014

9:00 AM

The most thought-provoking discussion about racism I ever heard took place five years ago on Channel 4’s Celebrity Wife Swap. No, it did. On the one side they had the former TV pundit and football manager Ron Atkinson and his wife Maggie, and on the other they had the former Olympic javelin thrower Tessa Sanderson and her husband Densign.

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Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.

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