Come on, now, I seem to remember sitting in Palm Beach, the night of the milennium celebrations and every time London's fireworks came on, we were treated to a load of "Once Great Nation" and "former colonialists" stuff, so much that my brother-in-law turned off the television and changed the subject to avoid more embarrassment.

Pot, kettle, black!

But I'll never be an Inde. reader, I don't like the self righteous pitch that they take on a whole load of issues, apart from motoring.

Incidentally, we had the first 4x4 in a ditch here in North Yorkshire, today: Woman taking two kids to school who thought it was invincible. 4x4 is the same as any other car on sheet ice, possibly worse, unless it's got very clever traction control.