ONE of the dangers with diversity politics, as illustrated by the RFU decision this week to dispense with the name ‘Saxons’, is that it can create a situation where everyone becomes alienated, whether it is English rugby’s white majority or its black and Asian ethnic minorities.
It is absurd for the newly ‘woke’ RFU to say that the only part of English culture which can no longer be recognised, or celebrated, in England teams is the part that stems from its Anglo-Saxon heritage.
We are told by the RFU that the rationale for changing the England second team’s name back to the nondescript Engl...