The National Youth Agency: Column - Diversity and behaviour

He and his young friends perhaps thought they were promoting diversity by having a fancy-dress party on the theme of "Colonies and Natives".

And how better to demonstrate social inclusion than to don the uniform of an often maligned and stigmatised group such as the Nazis. The Ku Klux Klan? Or the British National Party?

More likely, Prince Harry and his friends will have felt quite comfortable with the theme of the party and the brand of uniform because of the values they hold: values that allow them to act out themes from the recent past of both this country and elsewhere that many would consider racist. The colonial experience has left deep scars on both the natives of countries that were occupied by Britain and others in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the natives of Britain. As for the impact of the depraved Nazi dogma, its aftermath still impacts on its victims and perpetrators.