We should seize whatever opportunity we are given to be racist

Austin Barry

" Our emissaries have left a trail of blood, vomit, vast lagoons of untermensch semen, smashed bar stools and urine wherever they have set foot."

Which is Rod's way of reminding us that the party conference season is soon upon us.

Jez

The Russian's probably will be branded 'this', 'that' ot the 'other' right up until two things;

The very influential / rich Russians that have had their noses pushed out of joint by the present government of the Russkie Fed stop hovering around fleet street....

or

The same Ruskie Fed government sign over lucrative rights to almost everything they own to Mandelson and Co.

Anyway- i'm glad you didn't mention the Chinese in your article- because they really aren't racist all!!!

Archie

Ha-ha, Austin Barry. Now THAT'S funny! Jez: have to disagree with you about the Chinese.

Rotwatcher

Did you really base this entire article on two half-baked anecdotes? Epic fail.

Jez

I was being extremely sarcastic Archie.

Chris

Absolutely hilarious! My days would genuinely be just a little brighter were I to be able to read lighthearted articles such as this just a little more often.

Thanks Rod

K. McEgan

Dalaman not Dolman. Nobody has "done" Biarritz since 1909. 2005 English-cockney scum in Tallinn. I think they were off duty police.

Alexander

From the other side of the pond, I'm confused why you'd consider Romance-speaking Romanians to be Slavs. Is this a modern take to "the WOGs start at Calais"?

N

Germany was number one, really? I know a lady who was raised in Germany (her father was in the US military)and she's very nice. Last year there were three German foreign exchange students in my small town, all of whom were very nice and hospitable.

I'm not surprised by your comments regarding muslims/arabs, any group of people who willing abuse their own people must be real d-bags to visit.

Iceman

Sorry Rod, which part of your column's racist?

Christopher Chantrill

How could Hansi and Ilse have four children? I thought the Germans had given up on children, leaving that sort of thing to the Turks.

Richard

Yeh, right, and many murders do foreigners commit in the UK every year? 100, 120? Give me a pissed chav over a murderous Albanian any day of the week.

Mark Solomon

Alexander, the fact that Rumanians speak a Latin-derived language does not alter the fact that racially they are Slavs - d'oh! I live in Spain and speak Spanish all day long but that doesn't change my racial origin one iota!

Maia

Who did this poll? Britain.? The worst holiday makers in the world are the British.No respect whatsoever.They make any other nation look charming by comparison.

Duncan

"Richard"
4 out of 5 murders in UK are committed by Brits.One in five by "foreigners ".Showing your xenophobia are you?
The whole thing of belittling other countries and their nationals is useless as everyone is an individual not a package.

40 Degrees S

Phew! For once, us Aussies didn't get a lambasting for being couthless Ockers and brazen Ockarinas. Equally interestingly, the Seppos didn't get a serve either.

peter

Well, Rod, given the Spectator's editorial policy towards Palestinians, you should be proud to work for a magazine where racism fares so well.

Lydia P Troyer

I've always found chavs to be rather nice, in their own way; did our grandparents not have oiks and their fishwives? certainly Wellington valued their zeal when all pointed in the same direction and even Mr Churchill seemed to have a way with them, too. They are OUR Chavs and the difficulty seems to me, to be communication, not lineage.

Guillermo Pérez

I hail from Chile, in South America in case your geography is weak, and in all my multiple visits to Europe I have found that the British are the most polite, friendly, and pleasant of the whole lot. In sharp contrast to the French, specially the Parisians, who are not only cold and indifferent but can quickly become rude and aggressive. Never again!

Chalres Fitzsimmons

"Racism" a beautiful work of art
I miss Monty Python and Benny Hill. Miss honesty, too.

James Strong

As well as displaying gross arrogance the taxi passenger committed ceriminal damage and theft.
Few people who have worked in a Gulf state will be surprised at this attitude and behaviour.

Kathy Rindhoops

Rod - you can't run away from the TV debates with Heffer and then spout off here. I suppose being supporter of the great Chameleon in the past, it comes as second nature to just start spouting good sense after a cowardly exit. Have no shame!! What a policy.

Anna

Actually Rod, the Czechs are always to my mind ridiculously tolerant of vomiting screaming Brits. In a newspaper article here in Prague a coupla years back when the Brit invasion was at its height, various Czech pub and restaurant owners said indulgently that while Brits could be a bit troublesome and disgusting, really they were perfectly okay and rather sweet in their innocently primitive way compared to the Germans (maybe that was ancient genetic hatred talking!).
Anyway, I confess to liking this article. Especially the Arab lady almost eaten by alligators. Keep up this line of chivalrous satire and you could be forgiven for your lapse of taste over Harman - worthy of satire bt not that particular satire...

Ridcully

Lydia P Troyer: I think it's safe to assume that you never had to grow up on a council estate.

Dirty Euro

People in asomerset are rude, plus the white Americans are also rude and offensive.

A. MacAulay

Lydia B. Troyer: Quote Elizabeth Longford's Wellington biography. " Twelve thousand soldiers got drunk at Torquemada, and what looked like banks of dead bodies lined the road, only waiting to be picked up by the enemy." Getting them to point in the right direction was always a problem. Now even co-ordinated projectile vomiting is beyond the English working class because they no longer have public school officers. See this weeks Diary to confirm aforesaid.

Alexander

Mark:

That's insane. You wouldn't call the Prussians, for example, Slavs, would you? Ethnicity is cultural, not genetic.

Rupert Fotherington-Smythe

Rod, I think you rather wimped-out, actually, at certain points. Everyone who knows your mindset (!) Knows you were only mucking about. It would have been more fun, if you hadn't bothered with the apologia!
Good article, however, Rod. (Good fun!)

robert

Racism is actually a strong force for good: since ALL peoples display it, it brings us all together!

B.C.Waterman

You all forgot the Belgians, worst of the lot. They speak french and try to out "french" the french

Dirty Arab

Hmm, having come from a mixed-background I have had the chance a fair amount of decent Arabs (mostly Iraqis since my father is one) in addition to the stereotypical sods that you get everywhere around Europe unfortunately. It is quite scary at times the prejudice and hatred ordinary people harbour against Arabs/Muslims (and particularly Arab Muslims because, mind you, there are Christian Arabs, although largely unheard of, since it will make a lot of ignorant racists uncomfortable with their beliefs), and it is so mostly because it's not ignorant fools with poor knowledge of the world outside their town but even decent-looking, educated people with professional background living in cities like London. Oh, well, racism is always a matter of laughter for me as long as it doesn't cross the border of good taste, I'm happy to offer and take a stereotypical joke every now and then.

toby runcorn

Malaysia is a truly multi-racist society.