Riff-Raff

“One of Finlay’s cards opines that ‘When the world took to tolerance it took to crime’, and enjoins us, in triplicate, to ‘Repatriate Waldemar’. To a man born and raised in Berkshire, such a refrain bears more than a slight whiff of offence …” Michael Archer, Art Monthly.

“It’s (Berkshire is) the sort of county that given half a chance would impose a toll to keep out the riff-raff, and as such it attracts the sort of riff-raff who have acquired sufficient money to be allowed in …” Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp, Follies, A National Trust Guide.