The writer Theodore Dalrymple said recently it’s “the ugliest town in the world, like Ceausescu’s Romania with fast food outlets”. Boy George appears to be from there, but now denies this, which isn’t complimentary – he is saying: “Yes, I was a heroin addict, fair enough. And I do accept I invited a stranger back for sex and beat him with a chain. But I did NOT come from Walsall.
