While browsing today I noticed, to my mind anyway, this incendiary piece in the Daily Mail.

According to the new statistics, published yesterday, foreign-born people make up one in nine of the population of the UK as a whole.

However although the figures from the Government's Office for National Statistics show an increase in numbers of foreign born people they still fail to record the true impact of immigration because they record their children as British rather than second or third generation immigrants.

Source: One in nine people living in Britain now born overseas as 300,000 more foreigners settle in the UK

So I'm not British, though I was born in the heart of the Midlands and have probably spent less time abroad than your average family who may spend a week abroad in Spain etc a year. Not to mention those with homes aborad. Nor are Harry or William because their grandfather was born abroad. That foreigner Winston Churchill as well with an American mother no less.

What about the old empire? Do they count as British? In which case my family has been fully British since 1815 and not just the Welsh side of it.

You see, it's not that easy.

I know I shouldn't rise to this trash but it should be challenged. And it does make you feel alive.