One might be forgiven for assuming that the Tories would support initiatives like Dale farm. After all here is legally purchased former scrapyard which – through communal effort and ingenuity – has been made into home for a thousand citizens. Indeed, if it didn’t happen to involve the wrong kind of citizen, Dale Farm might [...]
It’s an election year. Which means it’s time for the Conservatives to attack their favourite victimised minority. For such a tiny minority in British society, Travellers certainly attract a disproportionate amount of Middle England’s ire. Not content with passing the Criminal Justice Act in 1994, which removed the requirement for local authorities to provide sites [...]
It never fails to annoy me when it’s claimed that some group or other is the ‘last’ group that it’s acceptable to be prejudiced about. Sure, there’s no denying we live in relatively enlightened times, but there are any number of marginalised sections of society that you can get away with offending without any fear [...]
