Search “define gypsy,” and Google's first hit is www.urbandictionary.com. The website's 'top definition' describes gypsies as the “Fucking scum of the earth... Biggest scumbag wankers...” Hate speech ...

In the 15th Century, fragments of obscure Indian tribes, having wandered across Asia and Europe, turned up in Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to ...

The Conservative Party’s manifesto commitments to “tackle unauthorised traveller camps” and give police new powers to seize Travellers’ property and vehicles play to an age-old view of travelling ...

Szilvia Reif, a student of mine from the (indicatively named) Gandhi School in Pècs, Hungary, wrote a poem that tells what it feels like to be a 'Gypsy (properly Roma). Stanza by stanza she reviews ...