re: #141 Syrah

That was my impression. Conservative with a small c seems to match what I recall.

I expect racial tensions to rise in Europe over the next twenty years. It has me a bit worried. The BNP and VB are I think early signs of what is to come. (I would very much like to be wrong about this.)

Agree with you on all counts, including the hope that we’re wrong.
A friend of mine was assaulted in London not long after 7/7 and told to “go home’. Never mind that he’s born in Devon, went to Oxford, and is C of E— and is half Anglo.