Suibhne - PeterBellamy's father's history is not rumour, He told me himself that he was born in 1944 after his father was released from imprisonment under Emergency Regulation 18b at beginning of WWii, along with Oswald & Diana Mosley et al, as he had been one of Mosley's most immediate deputy blackshirts. Pete was not exactly proud of it, but found it interesting, I think. His own politics tended to the right - a sort of humanitarian conservatism; like my own, really, I suppose. I am no leftie; but not really a rightie either. More an empiricist, believing in trying to judge every issue on its own merits. Apolitical as far as possible, I suppose you would call it. Peter was the same; a certain nostalgia, à-la Kipling, for the best of Empire but trying not to forget its abuses either.