Mind Your Effing Language: Welcome to Margate, Where Swearing Now Comes With a Price Tag

As Thanet Council proposes £100 fines for foul language, I’m wondering whether we’re cleaning up the streets; or just sanitising human nature, one F-bomb at a time!

Last week, as I mentioned in a previous column, an old acquaintance John visited us in the Cotswolds; dressed like an off-duty geography teacher who forgot his socks and got dressed in the dark. We were going to sit outside and eat. But it was a little windy. Not gale-force or hurricane-level, just breezy enough to lift a crisp packet. John reacted loud…