I only thought British people discussed the weather, an American friend of mine expressed complete disbelief at the seriousness of conversation about the weather. But really, there's nothing much to talk about here - it's cold, grey and murky and maybe for one minute of the day, the sun manages to make its appearance!

It was Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain last Sunday 27th, this is the second ever Holocaust Memorial Day. Last year there seemed a greater emphasis on Genocide in the last century, and as one can imagine political wrangling ensued, predominantly trying to get the Home Office to include the Armenian genocide into the picture for the day. It seems that the emphasis of the day this year was changed quite dramatically, when viewing the website front page it placed 95% emphasis on the actual Holocaust and mentioned other genocides in one of the paragraphs. There was a service in Manchester to remember this, to which a number of Armenians were invited, but over all the whole day went VERY unrecognised, not only in its attempt to change the emphasis of the day, but also in terms of the general public having an awareness of the day. At University I saw one poster, and no events organised.