Leo Kearse despairs at 'woke ideologues' as children's book claims ancient Scottish natives were black: 'Nonsense!'

The illustrated book, which aims to make Scottish history accessible to children as young as four, claimed that Scotland has always been "multicultural and diverse".

Creators of "Carved in Stone: A Storyteller's Guide to the Picts" depict the ancient Picts, who lived in northeast Scotland from 300AD to 900AD, as multiracial - with black monks, bishops, religious healers and ordinary villagers.

Expressing his outrage at the book, Leo told GB News host Martin Daubney: "It's a nonsense, it's an absolute nonsense. This just shows how our institutions, in this case our education education system, have been captured by woke ideologues, basically communists who want to rewrite history to make it fit with their current modern agenda.

"Which is, of course, making remaking the West as this sort of multiracial, multi-ethnic soup, importing the entirety of the Horn of Africa to Europe and to Britain to somehow improve it."

He fumed: "This just shows you can't trust education anymore, you can't trust books anymore. The only history books you can trust are the ones that were written before about 20 years ago.

"And the only historians you can trust are the ones who've been accused of bigotry, because anyone else might be lying so they don't get accused of bigotry. They might be lying to fit in with the current progressive dogma."

Hitting out further at Britain's "progressive agenda", Leo stated: "And when I say progressive, it's obviously not actually progressive, it's progressive in the same terms a doctor would tell you a disease is progressing.

"It's not actually progressing in the sense of being good for society."

Weighing in on the controversial book, Martin argued: "If you look into the archaeological evidence, the actual truth of Scotland, there is no evidence whatsoever of anybody of African origin being in Scotland until the 13th century, and that's when there was isotope analysis of a skeleton found a North African.

"But this was this was centuries after this children's book is set. This is a complete artistic reinvention of history, it's a fantasy, it's a lie!"

Leo responded: "This is flat earth level insanity, this is completely scientifically inaccurate. It's not even like London, in medieval settings, Robin Hood or whatever, they insert black characters and there were some black people in London because it was a major trade route.

"The Romans brought some black people or people from North Africa or whatever. But Scotland, none of them went up to Scotland."

Leo concluded: "They were probably cold enough in Kent, never mind exposing them to Aberdeen. So it's obviously completely fraudulent."

Those behind the book said: "We're proud to bring together some of Scotland's leading archaeologists, with a host of queer, marginalised and disabled voices to dispel misconceptions of the past."