There was a lot of rhetoric back in the 60s and 70s about building a counter culture, and most of it was hype.

But looking around at festivals this year I got a feeling that folk people here really have gone a long way towards building a real, if fragile, multi-generational counter-culture, and if I had youing kids, that's the sort of environment I'd want to raise them.

And I remember the other year when there was ll that stuff about young Elian Gonzalez, and looking at the pictures of Miami, and big cities in England too, and of his home town in Cuba, and thinking that if that was my grandchild, I know where I'd sooner he was raised.