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Just about recovered from the great evil that is BT Broadband "support" and installed a new Netgear router. Normal blogging will resume ... whenever.

Thanks to jockney for this link. It presumably dates from around the time of the Great Armada Debate.

THE early history of Britain is 'horribly white' and should be rewritten to include the black and Asian people who weren't there, the country’s equality chief said last night.

Freeman: Cut out of British history for being black

Trevor Phillips said he had read a number of key texts on the Middle Ages and not one had mentioned the major part played by Morgan Freeman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

He said the only dark skinned character to feature regularly in works on the medieval period was the Black Death, which he described as a “typically negative stereotype” of people of colour.

(And I know - there were North African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall nineteen hundred years back, just as Brits served on the Roman frontiers in places like Syria ...)