Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall: "Carcavelos is about 5 miles down the coast from us on the direct train line into Lisbon. Several people I know were on that beach that afternoon and at least one saw the aftermath. I also see from Laban that BBC Radio reported that they perpetrators were Cape Verdean.

Perhaps I might be allowed, however un-PC this is, to tell you what the Portuguese are saying about this? The first thing any of the say is that they were black. Perhaps this is hugely reprehensible, perhaps such things should not be mentioned, but there it is, the locals round here are saying that 500 black kids carried out a wilding attack on the beach.

This is most unusual here in Portugal, both the style of the attack and the identification by race (partly because the Portuguese when Empire building made little distinction about race in marriage and breeding, race is less important here."