I'm going to answer some of those questions on the Iain Dale meme. But I'm too young for some of them. So I'm going to put my mum's answers for some of them.

JFK's assassination: My mum was watching the TV when BBC interrupted with breaking news that President Kennedy was dead. Her mum, who was a very patriotic American had come back home at that moment,  and my mum didn't understand what was going on, but knew why her mum was crying.

England losing to Germany in 1990: Who cares?

Thatcher resigning: Despite my mum coming from a family of Tories, when she heard the news that Thatcher had gone, she fell to the floor and started crying with happiness.

Ok now to me:

Diana car crash: I was at my grandmother's house. And I had woken up too early, my grandmother came down, and she was a huge Di fan, and was in complete shock. I wasn't a big Di fan. I don't credit her with say, getting rid of landmines. We, and Clinton for that matter, should have given our thanks to Jody Williams. But what I found disgusting, was that the reason why she died was because of a soap opera obsession with the royal family, and how so many mourners went oyut just to see her little sons cry. Anyway, I'll stop ranting now.

9/11: I got home, and my parents were watching the TV in complete silence, and had been for 2 hours. I didn't really understand how serious it was, until it cut to smoke pouring over the whole of Manhatten. I remember the phone networks in this country had completely crashed. And then we started worrying about my uncle, who worked in Wall Street, and whether he could have been in the Trade Center at the time. It turned out he had been trying to drop his mother off at an airport, so wasn't in the district.

Some may point to the misinformationgiven by the BBC about the collapse of the WTC7 as evidence of a conspiracy. Leaving aside the idea, about how rediculous it would be if conspirators told the biggest news organisation in the world about their plans, we have to remember the confusion of that day. Even after the first and second tyowers had collapsed, I remember the news channels saying that 11 planes had been hijacked, that a car bomb had gone off in Philadelfia, Cleveland and Chicago. I also grasped the seriousness of the situation, when the news bulletins said that up to 50,000 people may have died.

So where were you all?

Some time ago I asked Alex if he could add the blog of the former chair of the PLP Lord Soley to the blogroll on Labourhome. I know he's been busy so I thought I'd share with you an article that Clive, my former MP, has penned for Muslim News.

Five years ago New York shook as the World Trade Centre collapsed.  The world would never be the same.  AS Heath asks whether our response was the right one?