OK. rebukes accepted.

Back to Flanders and Swann and to Phil Ochs dictum that you can make a hard point better with a laugh.

I had a sense of humour failure, and abused the Mudcat ethos for a debate that I feel rather strongly about.The Hammersmith bomb has wakened a lot of fears that we had hoped were laid to rest. Once again we see policemen with sub-machine guns at their side on the streets of London - it's just not right, somehow.

There is no doubt there are skeletons in the English cupboard, some still rotting in their chains. However, to deny the dark side of any nation, tribe or family is to blinker oneself to reality.

So, my Hibernian friends, flaunt your Hiberniousity, but please, leave your guns and bombs behind if you can, especially when you sing!

Is it possible to de-refresh a thread or part of a thread? Or, like the moving finger of Omar Khayyam, is it written there forever?