St. George - the Struggle Continues .

The BBC have more or less ignored St.George this year, with the exception of the 'Today' programme, which has an item every day on who should be his replacement (today's candidate 'that holy blisful martyr' Thomas a Becket). After all 'he wasn't even English'. Funny - what happened to diversity ? I think it unlikely we'll see similar BBC campaigns against non-Brits like Peter Hain and Dr. Beverley Malone.

And James Naughtie welcomed the gun amnesty, with '20,000 guns taken off the streets'. Like the old lady with 72 of her late husband's rifles in the attic. Thank heavens that thanks to the amnesty she'll no longer be renting them out to armed robbers.

Sorry, even R5 have a succession of people pointing out that only a fraction of these guns were ever on the streets in the beginning. I would lay odds that gun crime will continue to increase, and that it'll continue to become more difficult for a law-abiding citizen to own one.