Receiving a lovely hamper of Danish “goodies” from a very good Danish friend with whom I worked a few years ago and with whom I still maintain good regular contacts via phone, email and snail mail.

Tangmere, Remoroh – I really agree, hence my post. As I have grown older and wiser!?, I have grown less fond of any of these “best of” polls. They really mean nothing and probably result from the culture of the 21st century you have alluded to.

For my money there were hundreds of icons to whom we should be eternally grateful for contributing to the victory which saved us from subjugation and enabled us to keep our freedom.

Interflug – in respect of your final sentence, I could not agree more!

This looks very promising. I will certainly bookmark my favoured subjects and check in regularly. Well done.

You are correct to be careful about photos of demonstrations and signs shown. The photojournalist has to find pics that will sell and they attend every event, rally, march no matter how small. So the publicity given easly gives a visual impression of an event larger than it actually is in many cases.

As for Islam increasing in Europe, I really have not noticed problems with the ones I meet so have no concerns if it does increase.The ones I have met are thoughtful,hospitable educated and a world away from the alcohol fuelled bigots who are only on the streets to have a fight.

My personal experience is the same as yours but the problem is the “alcohol fuelled bigots who are only the streets to have a fight” in response to the Muslim minority who do not accept our way of life nor the necessity for them to live in peace amongst us.

You’ll have to tell me what else it does then…

Are we still waiting to hear what it is and what it does…………..?

Sadly, much of the conflict of today is rooted well and truly in the past. I once asked an Irish friend about why they had issues with Britian and she told me in excrutiating detail every wrong (preceived or otherwise) and action which had taken place against Ireland from the 1600s onwards. She was a normal person but clearly the historical framework was well and truly imbedded in her psyche.

I have no doubt you are right and your example only emphasises my point. Until people everywhere cease living in the past and continuing to bear grudges and worse, wishing revenge, for wrongs for which they cannot possibly have any personal feeling, the world will remain an unsafe place.