The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that drilling for oil in one family's back garden is becoming ever more common, then we learn that so-called new age travellers are reading the works of Karl Marx every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack so-called new age travellers reading the works of Karl Marx was Anne Widdecombe who today said we are coming slowly, painfully to an autumn of understanding, I hope it will be followed by a winter of common sense..