A new book by a professor of sociology at Middlemouth University claims that bigots are increasingly the focus of unfair criticism and prejudice in the media.

“Intoleration: The Rise of Bigotophobia in Britain” by Professor Gabriel Smirk, released next Monday, argues that it has become commonplace for bigots to be badmouthed, subjected to verbal abuse and spoken of unkindly by an establishment that is deaf to their needs as a community and fails to uphold their basic human rights.

“The fact is that it’s the last acceptable prejudice,” Professor Smirk said yesterday. “Bigots are treated like second-class citizens. We supposedly live in a country where freedom of speech is sanctity and yet the unwritten rule is that people are not allowed to express their hatred for minority groups without being shouted down or subjected to withering retorts.

The views of bigots are simply not respected and that’s simply got to change.”“You hear a lot about sexism, racism, ageism,” said Reginald Baron, chairman of Rally for Bigotry, an organisation dedicated to fighting for bigots’ rights, “but you don’t hear so much about sexistism or racistism – that is, prejudice against people who are racist or sexist.

“The irony is that in fact the majority of British people are bigots. Britain has a proud history of bigotry and bigotrian values. It’s important to remember that we won World War Two not because we hated Nazism but because we hated the Germans.”