Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a
foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you
speak a
foreign language in the street or
simply happen to look
foreign.
It was as though I was
speaking a
foreign language they could not understand; and in response, they
simply kept repeating the same mantras over and over again: animals are suffering, killing is okay, and killing is a gift.