Saturday, July 23, 2016

Know Your Enemy

"I was still disgusted but more comfortable with the racism of the 70s and 80s that was overt and thuggish, than this new form of respectable xenophobia where it is done in political circles, journalism and academia."

Tory peer and former party co-chair Lady Warsi on the post-referendum climate of intolerance. If that's how she feels, you have to wonder quite why she remains a member of a party whose former leader was particularly culpable, by referring to refugees as "a swarm"...

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