Alex Massie Alex Massie

Thought for the Day | 15 August 2011

Courtesy of Karyn McCluskey on the Today programme:

“The territoriality of gangs is really difficult. The territoriality of public services is even more difficult”

Territoriality is a pretty rotten word but you know what she means and Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair would, I think, agree with her.

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