Oh, one thing I was going to mention. I was shocked last night to hear my American girlfriend state matter–of–factly that England was “known” for paedophiles. As in, if you ask an American to name somewhere that paedophiles come from, they’d say England (along with movie villans and butlers, presumably). At first I thought she wasn’t serious, but it turns out that her view is that “you guys do have a lot of them”. Funny how nations perceive each other. I suppose I’d think of Belgium first in connection with paedophiles, but only because of that big abuse scandal involving all sorts of senior public figures a while back. But this subject is enormously in the news these days, with lots of anti–abuse adverts on television also. I don’t know what the statistics are about how big a problem this is in England, or whether it’s any bigger proportionally than in America.