An anonymous Belfast citizen got it absolutely right today in 1991 in the midst of appalling sectarian violence there -
'It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern".'
In other news ...
One of the great guys of Elizabethan England, Walter Ralegh, was executed today in 1618. The reason, those incomparable historians Sellar and Yeatman once said, was because he was left over from the previous reign. The real reason of course is that men as popular and larger than life as Ralegh had no place in the narrow world of that vicious paranoid freak, King James I.
