Let’s get out of history’s blind alley

MY call to welcome Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and for our nation finally to grow up and to recognise the false nature of our national memory, along with recognising the depth of our collective post-colonial psychosis (Letters, June 28) was met with the usual depressing juvenile guff.

From being rather pointlessly accused of being obsequious (Anthony Leavy, letters June 30), to having invented facts (JJ McGrath, July 5), I have been rebuked by self-appointed defenders of our history.

Can I point out to these gentlemen that as much as I appreciate and indeed defend their right to present opinion and claimed fact about my opinions, my intention was to generate some original thoughts and opinions from my fellow citizens – not rehearsed nonsense drilled into these people when they were in short pants or, rather ironically, quotes from “experts” in Oxford and America.