What was that, mate?
by Graham Davies

I have watched Deva Kumarasiri interviewed several times on television over the last 36hours. He seems genuinely surprised that his policy of not serving Post Office customers with a poor grasp of spoken English has caused such resentment in the local community.

On camera, there is no doubting his commitment to the cause of linguistic discrimination.

However, his overall presentation of his case was really rather poor. I didn't grasp it at all...because his accent was so strong that I simply could not understand what he was saying.