I wouldn't say they were never common, Keith. Even though I have lived for nearly 60 years in Manchester, one of the cities Jim quotes as being racist, I heve never seen one. But there is pleanty of evidence to show that such things did exist although I do not believe 'common' was a fair adjective to apply. Any more that I believed that deeply racist Britain was anything other than a tabloid attention grabber.

I would not say that they don't exist now either. Just because they are against the law does not mean that the die-hard diddycoy bashers will change their ways.

What I will heartily agree with is that we care. We will bring it out into the open and, where possible, do something about it. Surely that is a step in the right direction!

Cheers

DtG