I think I better note something which struck me as a bit odd a couple of days ago. I was in Eltham High Street, when I noticed that one of the Bric-a-Brac shops was selling American Confederate Flags. I might be overreacting, but does that not strike anyone else as a bit dark, even potentially racist? After all, the American Confederacy rebelled to maintain slavery and the African slave trade; it was a fundamentally racist country which was fortunately defeated 160 years ago. Why on Earth would a shop in South-East London be selling it’s flags? To be honest it seemed akin to selling swastikas. More to the point, why would anyone who is even remotely familiar with history want to buy one.