My poster girl for free speech

Now is the time of year to take down the Christmas decorations from your front window and put up, in their place, the anti-immigration posters. Please display them prominently and make sure the message on each is suitably strident. It behoves all of us to do this, as quickly as possible, even — perhaps especially — if we are liberally minded. For this is not about immigration, per se. It is to show solidarity with Ms Anne Maple, who is aged 61 and unfortunate enough to live in Lewisham.

I do not know Ms Maple personally. It may well be that, rather than a sainted individual, she is a meddlesome old ratbag. Either way, Lewisham Council has issued her with a total of eight anti-social behaviour notices in the last few years, for stuff like messing about with the communal bins near her home and also for feeding foxes (which I was not aware was an anti-social act.