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