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Labour still odds-on favourites to win. 2/9.

I've always believed them, pretty much as you've set them out, but I've never come across a local who can tell tales about real people the characters might be based on. Raymond Briggs has his characters much more firmly located in the area of Underhill Lane. One thing that might be worth...

That suggests that Lord Monk Bretton's old home, Shelley's Folly, is in Chailey. He always thought he lived in Cooksbridge. I think he now lives in Switzerland.

I thought the place was twinned with the city of Total Network Solutions in Wales.

Nobody in the village of Diamonds has complained (as far as I know). And, anyway, didn't the Albion steal the word Albion from the team in Sandwell?

I'm not sure how me using the phrase "evil perpetrators of mass murder" fits with Big Gully's assertion that I am "an apologist" . But I do welcome his promise not to trawl back and unearth the stuff I wrote in support of a campaign that was backed not only by the Argus and other UK media, but...

Yes. And the point is hat Brighton isn't a city. It's a town. Brighton and Hove is a city.

I'm afraid that no amount of "explanation" to the effect that "indigenous folk" equates with "christians" and stands in opposition to "muslims" will disguise the inherent racism in this sort of thinking. There are millions of white British people who are not Christians. There are millions of...

You speak as if Firle is a village without people from ethnic minorities. You're wrong. I'll concede, though, that it's a reasonably harmonious community to live in.

Dimitte nobis debita nostra.

But you didn't say "indigenous", you said "christian". It's not that long ago that my Catholic family was vilified in some quarters as a bunch of foreigners, owing an allegiance to a gang of foreign terrorists. I think we got through that.

No I don't know what was meant. It was you who brought "Christians" into this debate. I'm beginning to think you mean "white people". Or am I wrong? As for avoiding future conflict, the first step I would take would be to do something about the growth of racism.

I must be missing something. Where is the evidence that Christianity is lining up its members to take on the Muslims?

By "the black man" Powell undoubtedly had in mind members of the Afro-Caribbean community and Hindu Indian community who had been migrating to the West Midlands in the 1960s. His prognostications were plainly wrong.

Sorry. I thought that speech was self-evidently racist bile that was intended to cause nothing but trouble to the community that Powell was supposed to be representing. It certainly felt like that at the time.

He was certainly right to recognise that recruiting nurses and ancillary staff from the Caribbean would help save the NHS. But he was Minister of Health at the time.

... and Syria.

Wouldn't something a little more conciliatory be helpful in the current circumstances? Even Napoleon banned it.

I've always thought of the two sports as quite different entities, in the same way as basketball and netball. The fact that the kit and the equipment have similarities is just a red herring.

It's the people who have NO idea about political correctness who wouldn't allow it now. TDUDP is one of the most genuinely politically correct programmes ever.