Get Your Hate On

October 1 : England's Racial and Religious Hatred Act takes effect.

October 2 : Detectives from a "hate crime unit" have asked an art gallery to turn around a sculpture of Buddha with comical genitalia, on the grounds that it upset passers-by ... A police spokeswoman said detectives from the force's hate crime unit looked into the complaints and had spoken to gallery owner David Koppel.