"there was this creative artist addressing the fears of people who had and helping to make the alien presence of Irish and coloured people in our community - a little less scary that many people actually found it."

"I am an admirer of Adolf Hitler," he told the Sunday People. "Not everything about him, of course. I deplore his gas chambers and Gestapo as much as anyone, but I admire him for the things he got right, which I reckon was about 50 per cent."