Here's a letter from Tuesday's Guardian (April 2nd)that I find myself essentially in agreement with.(And I'll havce to post it in a couple of shots, because anything over two paragraphs or so doesn't seem to get through.)

What a charmless and emotionally stunted bunch some of your correspondents on the Queen Mother must be (Letters, April 1). Though a socialist and an active toiler in the ranks of the Labour party, I am unceasingly aware that my parents' generation may possibly have been the most valiant in human history.