Daily Archives: Februar 8, 2022

Roma and Travellers are accusing the UK government of duplicity, on one side condemning Jimmy Carr’s statements and on the other, implementing a new law that makes trespassing a criminal offence and that threatens the Traveller’s way of life.

• Roma accuse government of hypocrisy over Jimmy Carr joke. In: The Guardian. 07.02.2022. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/07/romas-accuse-government-of-hypocrisy-over-jimmy-carr-joke

A review of a Channel 4 documentary “60 Days with the Gypsies”. Well, the documentary reinforces some stereotypes, but the reporter did somehow change his mind and came to be with his origins …

• 60 Days with the Gypsies, review: a far cry from Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, thankfully. In: The Telegraph. 07.02.2022. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/60-days-gypsies-review-far-cry-big-fat-gypsy-weddings-thankfully/
• Channel 4’s 60 Days With The Gypsies prompts viewers to take fresh swipe at Jimmy Carr. In: Birmingham Mail. 07.02.2022. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/channel-4s-60-days-gypsies-23018920
• ‘Welcome to the family’: Amazon explorer who held prejudices about Travellers is stunned to learn of his own gypsy heritage while spending 60 days with Romany community for CH4. In: The Daily Mail. 07.02.2022. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10484575/Former-army-captain-discovers-gypsy-heritage-filming-documentary.html
• Amazon army captain who held prejudices against travelling community stunned by his own gypsy heritage. In: Metro. 07.02.2022. https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/07/60-days-with-the-gypsies-ed-stafford-stunned-by-gypsy-past-16065211/