So, at the recent rally called by the openly-racist, criminal demagogue Tommy Robinson, his followers carried Christian crosses -- not to signal their devotion to Jesus, or any love-thy-neighbour sentiment, but to signal their anti-Muslim credentials

x“My adopted back is the duck’s

With feathers that brush off the rain

So, no matter how many f****s

Are shot at me, it’s my gain

And a sign of the abuser’s loss:

Though curses come like monsoon flak

They make me smile, I don’t give a toss

--Water flowing off a duck’s back?”

From The Ghoolies of Gaali Gulley, by Bachchoo

Autumn was to Keats a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. To British hacks -- journalists -- it’s the season of party conferences, which this year’s so far have given prime attention and space to the issue of i

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