It's okay for shrike 200 to post a personal attack on me, but it's not okay for me to respond my views on contentious topics on this forum. Like it or not the issue of racism etc won't disappear on this forum. I was suspended from posting here for a number of months, in my absence there were scores of threads of this nature. Seems to me the only trouble 4HP has is me being the one of the few who would oppose the masses of pprune, which baffles me' cos for any thread to be interesting there's got to be opposing views.