Mgunn I share your frustration but at the same time I m aware that this isn t an academic exercise Knowledge doesn t exist in isolation from the real world We re not engaged in describing a herbarium specimen We re dealing with an event that has destroyed and continues to destroy people s lives We need to distinguish between attempts to promote a biased account of history and the irruption of understandable and proper anger when experience is being traduced We re in the immensely privileged position of being able to take a relatively detached position we should be careful how we judge the actions of others