Hello all

Been a little busy and the the steady flow which had to descended to a trickle recently has all but stopped in the last few weeks. I'm only sitting down at the PC just now to look into cross London transport, but taking the oppurtunity to check my email i found a couple of Mark Steel columns emailed to me, so in a move of seemingly dubious legality i'll just pinch them and republish them in their entirety and not for the first time either, oh the dangerous thrills life has in store eh. There quite big though so i'll go off just now and put them in separate posts and i can pretend i'm being dead busy.