Published 28 October 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4425
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4425

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From the Frontline

The colour purple

Des Spence, general practitioner, Glasgow

destwo@yahoo.co.uk

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

"Barney, Barney, Barney," the children chant at 5 30 on a Saturday morning. It’s his purple skin, his shiny white teeth, fixed smile, and sycophantic friends—but most of all his nauseating singing voice and phoney sugary lyrics—that I object to. I have endured his presence in my house for years and suffered his music tapes on car journeys. I deeply resent Barney the dinosaur. And with early mornings come early nights. So usually I can stand only 10 minutes of Question Time; bored by tired party political rhetoric, I give over to slumber. Last week, like so many others, I held on to the end to watch the British National Party engage in mainstream political debate.

For a change the debate was raw, passionate, honest, and angry. I believe it is democratically important that BNP views are heard and exposed for the racist poison that they are. No one . . . [Full text of this article]


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