ABSTRACT

It looks like the Daily Mail has been hit by lightning today. First paragraph:

Is this a familiar Euroscare along the lines of 'they5 want to ban 'our' sausages or Babycham or the like? It is a good front page for a patriotic (and xenophobic) tabloid like the Daily Mail', hundreds of thousands of middle Englanders are quaking in their boots at the thought of what might follow. There is a threat to the state and good order from a familiar menace: the European Court of Human Rights. Worse, for them, is to follow. Next paragraph, the Mail has a prophecy: 'It could mean gipsies being allowed to park their caravans virtually anywhere they choose, even in rural beauty spots where houses would never be allowed.'