Racial harmony in a dustcart
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BRIGHT SPARKS in the patrician London Borough of Camden came up with the idea of naming municipal vehicles after people famous for either anti-racist or pro-black activity, according to one's interpretation. The plan was to mark the Greater London Council's anti-racist year.
Is there a man with soul so dead that his pulse would not quicken if he knew that his rubbish had been removed by the "Ken Livingstone"?
"So he's done something useful at last," I hear people saying.
The memory of Martin Luther King could hardly be celebrated on a gully-emptier. Certain national newspaper writers and editors whose natural habitat is sewers are much more appropriate candidates for the honour.