Booked to go to York at half term, but I'm a bit put off by press reports of the racially motivated harassment, assaults and vandalism that are happening there at the moment. I heard an interview on radio 4 with the guy who's whipping all this up flag-wise, and he sounds pretty unhinged, as do his followers. What's it really like there at the moment? If it's tense we can go elsewhere. We've been before and we all liked it but I don't really want to be around such behaviour and I don't want my kids to be around it either. It's surprised me to hear all this trouble happening there, not least because unless things have massively changed in the couple of years since our last trip, it was one of the whitest cities in the country. So, what's the script? Is it as bad as it sounds?