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there weren't many non-white people in the valleys to be honest. i rarely heard people make racist comments, but thats not to say that there weren't hardcore racists there. i remember if a black person walked down the street, peoples mouths would hang open. i just think they were unaccustomed to...

i never said that. i said there is a resurgence and that i found britain to be more racist now than it has been in (my) living memory. i'm 37, so i was a child in the seventies. and YES, part of this is a centre right government letting working class communities being allowed to wither on the...

the other thing i'd query about what you said is was there really less immigration then? i'm thinking not so much the 70's but maybe a few decades earlier with the vast numbers of jamaicans arriving, which in itself prompted the "enoch was right" marches. the uk has always been a racist country...

the seventies was a turbulent time, but i don't remember it very clearly as i was quite young (apart from being beaten up by a skinhead in cardiff which left a mark). so when i say living memory i am talking of my own experiences. and anecdotally, when i left wales in the late eighties i...

yes, i think theres definitely a case for the resurgence of the right being in part caused by swathes of working class britain being declared economically unviable. a culture of hopelessness and then one party offering easy solutions that revolve around blame of the other - thats been proven...

ok, so everyone knows our "democracy" is broken. i'm with you on that, but thats a much wider strategic issue - in the meantime they are making almost weekly publicity gains. there has to be something tactically that can be done. i've been very careful here not to single the bnp out, you might...

there is no doubt about it - their policies have been driven by the mail, who's editorial line is sometimes indistinguishable from views held by the BNP. http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/2009/10/mail-dont-t-like-bnp-oh-no.html in addition, we are locking up children just because their...

but their agenda is already similar to the mainstream in many ways on immigration. in fact labours agenda on this has been set by the bnp, the mail and other assorted undesirables. i'm not convinced it could never happen again. if gray is right then this century will be characterised by...

yeah, and doing that also plays into the BNPs hands. their lifeblood is white working class resentment, and patronising those people is just going to make things worse. however, i deeply disagree with the Labour parties strategy for dealing with the BNP in the media, to whit...

and i absolutely lay the blame for all this at the door of the establishment who have presided over economic liberalism that has only benefitted the rich, lining their own pockets at our expense, thus engendering new degrees of cynicism. they handed over control to corporations and threw away...

two things about the comments section. the first is that the BNP regularly orchestrates saturation of comments and forum pages whenever an article is released online that mentions them. this is organised from their website. they are a small but very vocal minority who want to make it seem that...

nonsense, whats wrong with loving sex with many different partners? not everyone has the same morals, and i certainly never associate sex with guilt, or worry about desires that human beings don't fully consciously control anyway. maybe they aren't doing it because they want to be admired, but...

women get sexier as they get older. after forty they obtain this kind of experienced allure. much rather sleep with a woman who knows what shes doing than a fit twenty year old who doesn't, and maybe doesn't have that much to talk about either. give me someone who has lived, who has earned their...

lol, i can't believe i've just dropped in here and you guys are dissing each others mums, or something.

did anyone call bush a nazi? i think people had perfectly valid criticisms of bush that simply don't apply to obama at this stage.

wow, thats in norwood you say? might have to go check that out!

the uk government never had a problem shaking the hand of benjamin netanyahu and all the other war mongers on the other side, so whats the difference?

i quite like living in the suburbs of the city. i'm in gipsy hill now which is a hell of a trek to anywhere really, especially as i walk everywhere. i agree with the previous poster who said in order to really appreciate london, find a part where you feel comfortable, get to know the area and...

my favourite feature of brockwell park is the lido, affectionately known as the "brixton beach". possibly the only open air swimming pool where the smell of skunk in the air is omnipresent.

south london is even greener - crystal palace, brockwell park, norwood park, clapham common.... the list goes on. there is also sydenham wood which is the last remaining chunk of one of londons oldest forests, the great north wood that once stretched from deptford to selhurst.