Anti-Welsh bigotry is rife. It’s just as well we’re a tough people | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The England Rugby coach Eddie Jones is not the first to air repellent views. He won’t be the last, as the Brexit vote indicatesI welcome the news that the England rugby union coach, Eddie Jones, has apologised for publicly calling Wales a “little shit place”. He’s right: there are no excuses. Being Australian, however, he could perhaps be forgiven for moving to England and thinking such anti-Welsh sentiment is par for the course. His comments come in a long tradition of unpleasant and abusive language about Wales and the Welsh – often so horrible that his own comments, sadly, don’t seem all th…