Now boffins have discovered that thugs can cause cancer as well as being, frankly, distasteful.

Docktawh Gillian Keith, speaking from her underground nutrition dome said, "Ever since Norris McWhirter, speaking posthumously told me about it, I have been trying to cure being foreign and suspicious looking with a powerful mix of micronutrients, goji berries and spirulina."

She added "As it turns out being foreign and suspicious looking is almost completely identical to cancer, in how it affects the balance of our chakras. And everybody knows that being foreign and suspicious looking is mostly caused by thugs, who are known to promote a negative orgone balance in the red layer of the energy rainbow."

Of course liberal-minded multiculturalists will no doubt assume that comparing thugs to carcinogens is "racist", but they can’t deny the simple facts of the case. And the Mail is happy to back Gillian’s words; she gave us a fresh insight into Broken Britain by saying, "I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it.".