So, we have the contemporary miracle of no-one in the whole of Serbia/ Serbain Bosnia knowing where Radovan Karadzic was, all this time? D'you buy it? Just as no-one in South Africa now admits to having supported apartheid. And no-one in WWII France was ever a Nazi. Yes, of course. Perhaps Bush and Blair could get jobs as a belly-dancers in downtown Tel Aviv and no-one will be able to tell the difference. Now there's a thought.

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Went to the Pentangle concert last week, part of their national tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of their formation. Pentangle was a superlative British folk-jazz-blues-raag group of 1967-73. The concert was superb, every one of these five musicians is transcendent and together... John Renbourn played guitar with geometric precision and a passion so contained it was as though his body had become a part of the instrument. He played sitar, too, while Bert Jansch handled banjo and several guitars and made it all look so easy - of course, it is incredibly complex. Danny Thompson and Terry Cox were on top groovy form as the prime jazzmen they are and Jacqui McShea's thousand year-old voice soared towards an invisible, yet tangible, emptiness.