Romanians, "Ratcheting Up the Rhetoric" Cartoon; Benefits Street; Immigrants

The Times featured a graphic cartoon by Peter Brookes today (18 December), tweeted here

Order a copy here

Cartoonists galleries

Having worked for many years to establish and nurture closer cultural relations between Eastern and Western Europe, and between the South and the North, I find it truly appalling - the constant negative and hostile rhetoric in the British press and media about immigrants (fellow Europeans) from Romania and Bulgaria.

Am I also part of the "unfashionable minority"? What do Cable and Clegg have to say? and more controversy

Nick Robinson tries to present a balanced documentary (BBC iPlayer)

Benefits Street, Episode 2 (hard working Romanians)

Telegraph Review

Birmingham Mail review

The Economist on Romania and Bulgaria

See earlier blog posting

I was thrilled when a Romanian poet translated some of my work and it was published in a Bucharest literary journal. Here's the introduction.

See also, this blog posting with article by Boyd Tonkin.
First published in the Independent, 27 December 2013.

Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

Divine Sopranos, The Telegraph

Viviane Reding (Huffington Post)

Kathimerini on banned Greek TV (14 February 2014) programme

I pity the poor immigrant (Bob)

Joan Baez version

Joan Collins version