Is it really true that the Anglo-Saxons took over by selective breeding?
The sneaky German practice of commandeering all the best places around a swimming pool is not as recent as supposed. After the Anglo-Saxon barbarians invaded England 1,600 years ago they used a similar ploy to outwit the ancient Britons, but instead of towels, they laid down a ban on intermarriage that allowed them to dominate the male gene pool. This policy of segregation, likened last week to a form of apartheid, gave the invaders a range of advantages that enabled them to outbreed the subjugated locals. This apparently explains why most of our DNA is German and why we speak a Germanic language that retains almost nothing of our Celtic past. No British please, we’re Saxon. Or so claims a new study by researchers at University College London, who maintain that the theory resolves an age-old dispute about the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain that took place after the Roman occupiers withdrew in the 5th century. It is as well to view this latest development with a little scepticism: in 1
