When other European leaders then began talking of a "social Europe" to protect workers, it sounded awfully like a return to pre-Thatcher days.

Aimlessness has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan whose productivity and social harmony are the envy of the United States and Europe.

In Europe their persecution by the gadje began quickly, with the church seeing heresy in their fortune-telling and the state seeing anti-social behaviour in their nomadism.