part of an Orwellian process? Michael Peel This narcissistic moron's protest, apart from being illiterate and betraying the deeply muddled thinking of a moron, was nothing more than a call for mediocrity. Art Hear Hear! Good to have an LSE graduate show a bit of honesty about that deeply over-rated institution. But, Rod, I wonder what you are talking about in your reference to a diasporic hell-hole? With the exception of Red Indians, all residents of Trenton NJ must in some way be diasporic. You couldn't possibly be referring to the skin colour of the largest ethnic group, could you? Funny how you find it hard to resist bringing race into everything. Of course, with your LSE education you couldn't be expected to know that it probably doesn't really work to define black Americans as a diaspora, as the term suggests that they have an identifiable homeland they can relate to. Of the many tragedies of slavery is the fact that its victims and their descendants remain with a sense of rootlessness, desparately searching for an identity that probably doesn't exist. Let us hope, then, that your daughter, in spite of her absurd primary school, manages to get into a proper university that will enable her to educate her dad in his dotage. walker Excellent. Bill Corr Rod needs a new atlas. The Isle of Wight, the Isle of Man and the Isle of Dogs are not the same place. Some adherents of the B.U.F. were banged up behind the