Happy Victoria Day, the day we honour an old queen by giving her not a moment's thought. A year or two back, some professor thought we should change Victoria Day to Heritage Day to "strengthen our heritage." We strengthen our heritage by obliterating it, apparently. True, there exist many confused persons who believe Victoria Day is Stock's gran'ma, but that's no reason not to stand up for the old gal. She was our first wholly constitutional monarch, and thus a critical figure at a critical time: She embodies the principle of peaceful evolution that distinguishes the Britannic world from ... well, pretty much everywhere else, come to think of it.

Remember the USA Today weather-map system of colour-coded security alerts that Tom Ridge introduced south of the border a couple months ago? If you were to apply Ridge's code - from blue to red via green, yellow and orange - to the health of global democracy, you'd wind up with something along these lines: the United States, code green; Britain, Canada and the non-insane parts of the Commonwealth, code yellow; Europe, code orange; the Middle East, code red. The Arab world has no democracy, and little prospect of any, and so its much-vaunted "Arab street" is, in fact, a symbol of weakness. Folks jump up and down in the street when they've nowhere else to go. The Arabs are world leaders at yelling excitedly and shouting "Death to the Great Satan!" and world losers at everything else.

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1264/30/ Too true My daughter took part in a heritage fair last week and nary a mention of the dear Queen was made. Just because we were part of the largest empire the world has known under her rule, Like hows that for womens rights! Anyway,

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