Well, DtG, it's not often a mudcatter makes me blush, but I am blushing now.Thank you very much for the compliment. Yes, our paths have crossed, haven't they. Wasn't it about the Muslims? Incidentally, I have probably been wrong more often than it appears. I've become adept at covering my ignorance up. Again, many thanks.

I too get pissed off with the anti-Brit feeling that is sometimes expressed in Mudcat. It's not that we don't often deserve it-we often do- but it is often taken out of context and held up as unique to perfidious Albion. Britain (or England) is bad and that is all there is to it. Very often there is a (barely) hidden nationalist agenda.

Is your name really weelittledrummer, weelittledrummer? What were your parents thinking.