Tom Robinson: Happy The Way He Is
Paul Rambali, Trouser Press, February 1978
SOME PEOPLE are worried that the next few years in Britain will see the rise of extreme right wing sentiments turning the country into an oppressed neo-fascist state. Some other people think that would be a good thing. But most people think it could never happen they are what Tom Robinson calls the fence-straddlers.
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