There's been lots of coverage on the BBC, much of it quite late at night, unfortunately. Survivors have been recounting their experiences, and it's grand that there are still people approaching the age of a hundred who can still give us clear-eyed testimony of the horrors they experienced. That won't go on for many more years, and a recurring theme is that there's the worry that the Holocaust will become a footnote in history. Well I don't think that will happen, mainly because we have so much footage of the camps in 1945 and so much recorded testimony. I won't be around to see whether that prediction will come true, but I do think that the Holocaust should be a prominent part of every child's school experience, treating it as an historical afterthought not allowed.

What a bugger it is to see what's happened in Israel in the last couple of days. I have no wish to start an anti-Israel regime spat, but I know what I think...