At last a Sunday morning, bringing no sense of shame to be English!

No! My headline to this posting does not relate to the well contrived rugby victory, yesterday at Twickenham, stalwart as it was, sport after all is merely that!

The rescue of oil workers from the Libyan desert, shows that there are pockets of decency and daring still alive in my country.

On the last day of next month, a dedication ceremony will take place, of an Operation Frankton Memorial, at Pointe de Grave, France, to mark the heroism of the marines, whom we English tend to refer to as the Cockleshell Heroes.

How fitting that a few weeks before this ceremony, it was the men of the Special Boat Service, read here, who reportedly largely facilitated this rescue!