I don't agree at all that people don't care for their neighbours. We have had successive governments that have promoted freemarket policies and a kind of "me first and me second " approach but people through their work,family and wider social relationships tend to look out for each other .

In my school for example the pupils have been very keen to raise money during earthquake appeals and for an anti landmine charity.They were very moved when an Indian lady came to our assembly to talk about the earthquake and its effects.

I know a woman near me who spends every sunday morning of the year at a car boot sale raising money for a vietnamese orphanage and I am sure there are countless acts of thoughtfulness and caring that go every day.

On a more overtly political scale think of the 100000 anti war demonstrators in London last month who called for an "immediate ceasefire "in the Lebanon and those anti war protestors in Ireland and Scotland who took peaceful direct action to try and prevent the supplying of weapons of mass destruction to the warmakers.
All is not lost...but it could have been so much better! And get to the mass lobby of the Labour Party in Manchester on the 23rd Sept.
ifor