You have my deepest sympathy, I am worried about where your country is going, I am worried at what might come next for the subjects of King George : You are citzens no more.

As I said in Breakfast this morning ;

When Croesus visited Delphi for omens on attacking Persia he was  told "After crossing the Halys, Croesus will destroy a great empire". Did no-one remember this was a warning, not an encouragement ? I share the dread coming across the Pond that the US has crossed the Halys with this bill.

I read an interesting column in the Indpependent this morning on US Sport. It had a comment about the acquiescence of the US public towards drugs in US sport.

We are, he said, an unbelievably complacent society. We know our President is probably a war criminal and we see baseball players putting on 40lb of muscle during the off-season, yet our president is still in office and those guys are still playing pro baseball.

I confess I watched the riots in Paris with a degree of envy. You can't motivate anyone in this country to protest about anything.

keep to the Fen Causeway