Hordes of asylum-seeking Gypsy thieves are overrunning our welfare state and using their children as props to beg money on our streets. Or so the tabloids would have it. Isabel Fonseca asks why we are reverting to myth and superstition in our reaction to a people who need our help.
Comment & features p2
This week a newspaper claimed that Beryl Bainbridge tricked an audience of book-lovers into singing the praises of non-existent author Rhoda F Comstock. But the truth is very different. Paul Bailey, Comstock's creator, reveals how a literary joke turned into a surreal nightmare.
G2 Comment & features p4
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