I don't think that Murray intended for his honest inquiry to turn into an internet international slugfest, and his question had a simple and clear answer, save the fact that Michael, for reasons of his own, chose to take the gratuitous stab that Mick has cited above.

The fact is, many years ago, I had one of those Nuclear Disarmament buttons snugly and smugly pinned to my coat, ready and willing to go into a "Ban the Bomb" diatribe for whosoever made the mistake of asking about it--but these days, you can buy t-shirts and necklaces with the "Peace Sign" on them at Target, and it is all nostalgia, rather than any sort of political or even "Peace" statement. And the UK has more like 60,000,000 people-as
the poet said, "That was then, this is now."