The media and government were working closely last night to identify a new conduit for public anger, amid fears that an absence of media-led outrage could see civil unrest spill onto the streets.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2009
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Twenty-four year old Ben Donovan found himself feeling increasingly trapped and anxious last Wednesday evening as an initially friendly chat with seventy-eight year-old pensioner Fred Greggs at a Bethnal Green bus stop continually teetered on the edge of small talk and explicit racism. ‘This sweet old man said to me how the bus was late again, and I said something about London Transport these days’, explained the trainee solicitor, ‘He then said how the drivers are all a bit laidback, if I knew what he meant, and started whistling what I think was a calypso while miming smoking what I suspect wasn’t just an unfiltered Woodbine.’
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today ordered Mensa to review its membership criteria following a series of damning complaints that it is discriminating against far-right idiots not bright enough to join. Under current rules Mensa only admits those with an IQ in the top 2 per cent of the population, but the EHRC has declared the policy to be ‘institutionally elitist’ and infringing the human rights of ill-informed bigots everywhere.
Posted: Oct 19th, 2009
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Ku Klux Klan leaders have reacted angrily to calls that they remove their hoods when in public. ‘It’s an outrageous infringement of our civil liberties,’ said Grand Wizard Billy Barr Jnr. ‘It’s part of our culture, our belief system and our heritage that when whipping up racial hatred we wear a big white pointy hood.’
The row has grown since last week when Home Secretary Jack Straw said that it is perfectly possible to incite racists without covering your face up. ‘When I’m chatting with members of a white supremacist organisation, I want to be able to see their expression. So when Klan members come to my surgery, I ask them to take their hoods off.’
Labour MP Phil Woolas also criticised the wearing of traditional Ku Klux Klan headgear. ‘How can they do their jobs properly with restricted vision? They might set fire to the wrong cross.’
Posted: Oct 16th, 2006
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