a better question, but the first one is still kinda important. Also, touch OTT lumping Boris alongside Le Pen. He may be an utter twerp but he's not a raving facist. Anyway, too nice and crisp a day to worry about Islam and the funky bunch. Who's looking forward to Christmas? Mum just dropped a bombshell on me this morning. We're having beef for chritmas dinner rather than turkey?! Fortunately, she has assured me that we will still be consuming pigs in blankets, so good news there. "Following the horrors of the Holocaust, the norm was widened to include Jews. And with the civil rights movement in the US, this was further extended to black people and other ethnic minorities - legally and theoretically, though not in practice." Tolerance by many towards Jews existed here long before the holocaust. And why not, they were talented people and contributed much to the economy and in many cultural fields. Their behaviour was not, I believe, aggressive. What a contrast to the muslims of the banlieu in France, those currently rioting in Amsterdam, and the large number of radicalised muslims here (opinion surveys suggest about 100,000 supported the 7/7 London bombings). We have terror trials on a weekly basis at the moment and Sir Ian Blair tells us the number of terror plots are growing above 1000. Then we have the issues of the attitudes towards women and homosexuals. Here, we support equality and legality (although, many, including me, do not support gay