In message <[log in to unmask]> Tom wrote: > Hi Ruth > > >We feel very angry about this, but powerless to do anything. > > It won't be too long before politicians of various hues will be agog to hear > about everything everybody thinks...... Not that they will do anything about it, of course. > As a profession we tend to shy away from that arena but it might be necessary > alas Quite so. I think it might now be time to announce that I am standing as a candidate in the forthcoming general election for the "Ungovernable Cynics Party" [*] -- Iain Hotchkies ambition: polymath currently: jack of all trades www.hotch.demon.co.uk corollary: master of none [*] not really, but this may be the only way of bringing about any change. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%