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Well, thought I had set it out in several posts below. In summary, be careful of appearing to be pompous Anglophile talking down to Johnny Foreigner in a self righteous way, and acknowledge that countries that have little history of immigration might be behind the curve in terms of racial...

So we are in total agreement. Routine abuse would of course have to be acted on unilaterally. That was not my point.

We dont disagree - continual abuse that is not acted upon would have in the extreme to be unilaterally acted on; and chances are that several countries would be affected so a concerted effort could be effective. My case is that a lone example acted on without concrete proof by one country would...

Problem is that it is not the racists who are antagonised; it is the rest whose sympathies thereby tend towards the racists. Put it like this: if you are a racist, and an incident occurs where your home country is humiliated by a country over a racist incident with whom you and your fellow...

The problem with boycotting is being seen as taking the moral high ground, somehow making out that one has 'better' morals. This is likely to antagonise and therefore be counter-productive. Imagine, for example, Russia v England friendly in March (just suppose) when Raheem Sterling is abused...

Things are different in parts of Eastern Europe. My son teaches English in Poland and has been abused by skinheads despite his white skin; seems like anyone ‘foreign’ is an easy target. There is a telling clip from Minder (late 1970s) when George Cole warns that there are ‘Spades’ in a house...