I'm giving up on WAV. Let's leave him to his dream of a world where Fredland is full of Freddish people doing Freddish things, Bertland is full of Bertish people doing Bertish things, and so on all round the globe. As dreams go, it's quite a pretty one.

But, before anyone mentions John Lennon, I don't say WAV's a dreamer - I say he's a racist. Because he presents this dream - which has never existed and never will do - as how the world should be. And trying to make this dream a reality would involve the use of coercive force on a massive, massive scale: it would involve telling thousands and thousands of people what to do and not to do, where to go and not to go, and getting men in blue uniforms to enforce the message with big sticks. And for what? Why should Mr Bert from Bertland not come to Fredland? Because he's a criminal, because he's unemployable, because he's carrying rabies? No - we don't need to know anything about him as a person. All we know is that he's Bertish, and we believe in conserving our good Freddish culture by keeping Bertish influences out - Fredland for the Freddish.

Anyone who can't see by now that this is a racist way of looking at the world will never see it. I suspect WAV himself is one of them.