The pogroms last night that you saw, it must have had echoes for you of what happened in the North in the late 1960s, early 70s.

Oh, yes.

I mean, the parallels and just the similarities between the experience last night and the experience that I can recall from, oh, 50 and more years ago, I mean, in the same places, in Derry, exactly the same parts of town, where we saw riots and ructions and bitterness overflowing 50 years ago.

There it all was again in the last couple of days, and that From my point of view, and I think from the point of view of most people in Derry, that is the really depressing thing about it.

And in more general terms, I personally doubt very much whether any measures that are taken by government or local government broadcasting authorities, any of these measures, I don't think they're going to have a real impact.

I think that technology has outgrown our ability to control it.

And even if you try to control it, questions of freedom of the press and freedom of speech won't be easily erased.

But I imagine there is more to it than that.