From an time when (in South Wales) ecumenism was sometimes more casually done than in latter times… John O’Sullivan recalls going to Mass in Barry in the morning and having Ian Paisley round to tea in the afternoon… Thanks to reader Andrew for that one…
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »