Respect is not a word I can prescribe to music, but even if I could the same problem would arise because I’d still have to “respect” an individual’s music whether I liked it or not, simply because it was of a genre I liked. Which simply makes no sense to me. So we’ll have to agree to differ..

Missed this before…

There are bands that I don’t like, within genres that I do like. For example I like a lot of progressive rock, and I really enjoy the music of Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis, Van Der Graaf Generator, Soft Machine, Gong etc. I don’t like the music of Emerson Lake and Palmer that much. I respect them as musicians, but I don’t like the music they made together. I don’t think they are bad, just not something I can get into.

Britain First talk a good game. They have the ‘click bait’ market down pat.

You do have to wonder if they would stop a single Asian man from entering the same park. Probably not. Likewise, you are ignoring a lot of history if you think that women are incapable of cruelty towards children, extending as far as paedophile acts.

Then again, I remember the 2012 London Olympics for the gaggle of female presenters lusting after Tom Daley’s then 18 year old body. Imagine if it were the other way round, and male presenters made off-colour remarks about 18 year old female divers. That wouldn’t have worked out so well.

I was at a conference this week very near Baginton (I was just outside Kenilworth). However, I had no down time and couldn’t muster anybody else to go on a trip to see WR963. Very frustrating as the whole museum looks interesting.

But these islands are probably the best example of the “melting pot” social culture long before the Americas were overrun by incomers.

Given OP’s apparent penchant for right-leaning politicians who sold a nostalgic view of the country as being greater and more quintessentially English at some undefined point of time safely in the past (think Thatcher), then your notion of the country being a ‘melting pot’ will probably go over rather uneasily, as much as we are a horrid ragtag bunch of mongrels.

Charlie,

Let me sooth your anxiety. If, in the worst possible case, UKIP find themselves in Parliament with a clear majority but no particular other policies apart from our removal from the EU’s embrace, the country will continue to function exactly as before – seamlessly.

Eventually and in good time – the best possible way, UKIPs policies will slide into place.

The SNP said exactly the same thing and it was dismissed as porridge gargle, probably by ‘your lot’.

Let us hope that commonsense prevails…

An entirely subjective concept that aged right whingers such as yourself seem to cling to and fetishise for some reason, though only ever in the context of it being lost or eroded. Care to elaborate? I hazard a guess that you are old enough to remember a time when eugenics was considered common sense, after all.

If nothing else it demonstrates the not so latent hostility and contempt for the British working classes…

Nothing like your beloved Maggie then.