Sorry to raise this here, but there's something I need to get off my chest. I walked into the gents of my local last night, and heard two characters giving out with racist and highly offensive diatribes about Muslims, in a manner I haven't had to suffer in years.

I have long since given up arguing with bigots and thickos but, before walking out in disgust I heard one of them complain about "some Paki" who'd been caught urinating on a war memorial in an unspecified locality. "And they let him off with it". (Presumably on lack of evidence).

War memorials seem to be a sitting target for every drunken yob who piles onto the street in need of a leak, and there are several reported instances of them being daubed with racist graffiti and swastikas. Plus, there have been various news stories about bronze plaques being pilfered from memorials.

However, as far as I know, none of these involved Muslims, and the people who carried them out were in all probability white indigenous British.

Have I missed something, or was last night's encounter just another instance of ignorance fuelling prejudice?