I don't think anyone's kicking anyone when they're down here, Arran; on the contrary, I think WAV has stood up remarkably well under such, ahem, scrutiny, even if he has ducked certain key points. No-one is trial here, God forbid.

As for WAV being Australian, it's a moot point, regarding one's culture as oppose to one's ethnicity, in terms of where one was socialised, as oppose to where one was born. So in no way are such comments racist, rather they call into question whether or not one is qualified to call oneself an Englishman when the defining years of ones life were spent in Australia.

This much WAV is quite open about, and is clear to anyone who meets him or listens in to his myspace site. As I've said to him myself, I think he should be doing everything in his power to keep his accent as a mark of his unique individuality, rather than try to lose it as part of the process of his repatriation. But each to their own. In this day and age one can be trans-cultural as well as trans-sexual, or watever else one wants to be. One thing one can't change is one's ethnicity, which is perhaps the defining aspect of ones humanity after all.

Marxism before Marx? You know, WAV, I was brought up with idea that Jesus Christ was the first Communist, so the Jesuist Teachings (i.e the teachings of Jesus without the religious hoo-hah) remain an essential aspect of my life today.