i am not entirely comfortable with irving having been imprisoned for his beliefs and indeed found the poem revealing myself i certainly understand what you are saying about beliefs having been different when he grew up and i tend to have quite right wing beliefs myself in terms of personal responsibility etc i guess denigrating rastas is distasteful to me and my partner is black which isnt an issue here but i feel would be were i to take her to britain as rascist attitudes are held by many more people than here and irving's poem seemed to symbolize all that i dislike about white uk rascists honduras is great just bought a house here on thursday so after nearly years outside the uk i am really committing myself to being here and given the close connections i have with family and the uk media news radio etc i dont want to go back dont think i could have been happy here in the pre broadband age though