perseverer:"Also TTT, I am gradually learning your abbreviations which you use to denigrate anyone who does not agree with your opinions, but perhaps you could provide a glossary for newcomers to AB. " - I do not denigrate people who disagree with me, I denigrate people who spout rubbish they have been brainwashed with and never back up those opinions with evidence and justification. I denigrate people who's first instinct is to support anyone but their own country. I denigrate people who trawl around for the slightest thing with which to knock us(QED). I denigrate people who ignore all good news and concentrate on bad. I denigrate people who ignore mitigating circumstances in shouting their mouths off. I welcome debate but you rarely see it on here.