...and, Ian, with regard to your assertion that 'millions' think as you do: there are occasions when a counting of heads doesn't absolutely settle a question. I think all you are demonstrating is that a lot of other people are as mistaken in the matter as you are. You clearly won't agree -- your privilege; but the actual number either of us could claim in support of our view is neither here nor there.

Another little story I heard, & liked, some years ago, about a lesson on contemporary theatre back when S African apartheid was still just about going. One pupli said that the black SA playwright Athol Fugard had made a lot of difference with his somewhat tendentious plays. Yes, said another, but he isn't black, he's white. And a dispute on the matter broke out; at the end of which the not very experienced teacher said, "Well, let's vote on it".

But of course, that vote would have made no difference whatever to Mr Fugard's actual skin pigmentation. Any more than your 'millions' necessarily discount my side of the issue between us whatever.

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Just as matter of interest, Mr Fugard is white. & I can be sure because I have met him...