"The consensus, often called "the tolerant society," began to sicken under the Labor Governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan; under Mrs. Thatcher, it is dying. One example: There are 7,000 officially recorded racist attacks each year. The true figure is probably many times that. Of immigrant families I have interviewed, none allow their children to play outside, none has escaped at least one firebombing, none bother to call the police for fear of being arrested themselves on a bogus charge."
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Auberon Waugh cited Pilger's article (including most of the above quote) in the Sunday Telegraph commenting: "One wonders who are the better informed, readers of Pravda or readers of the New York Times." (19 June 1983, p. 18). Pravda was then the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist and documentary maker based in London and Sydney.
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