I appreciate that Richie is seeing how some of his comments really offend and can sort of understand why he is aggravated by abuse he sees first hand.

I would like to ask him and others to consider what is the agenda of the news organisation from which they derive "facts." For me the Daily Mail is not a reliable source. I feel it stretches statistics and prints outright lies in order to sell papers. It stirs mud and raises antagonism especially against the liberal left, by any means. The DM tends to appeal to basest part of human nature.

I say these things because once upon a time I was card carrying conservative. I was hot headed and loose tongued. (Sometimes I still am but now for the other side.) Now I try to read everything with a critical eye. What has the reporter/ news agency to gain by swaying others to accept his/her/their opinion? Is that gain something that really suits me and what I believe is right and fair?

Disinformation tears divides people, communities, nations. And a very few are getting bloody rich and powerful from rolling out a very specific version of "truth."