Given the Scottish setting, to me it reads as a piece of very old fashioned racial stereotyping.

The ground covered in broken beer plastic conjures up a few familiar memories though, Cambridge FF especially.

It's only a bit of fiction isn't it? There's more than a grain of truth in it, but it's been spiced up and exaggerated to suit a tabloid front page.

What was the festival in Austin,TX like, that this was supposed to be compared with? Tea and cakes on the vicarage lawn? I doubt...

Anahata