Liverpool is not a small community. It is a huge city. MOst of the people "mourning" him wouldn't know him from Adam. Why would you want to be comforted over the death of a person whom you never knew? No. My feelings - or grief, which is what we are talking about here- do not end at my cat. They end with the people I know personally, such as friends and family. What I, and the Spectator, is the inappropriate display of emotions, or the wallowing in grief. Disgust and anger are far more proper to the ocassion.