A level playing field is what tourist boys are working at, in and for. By that we mean a reductio ad absurdum of the troubles to a cemetery for tourists. Prod murals versus Taig murals. More Taig murals in Derry of course with our own gallery lumped in for the show. We resent this naturally. as our murals are anything but ’more of the same’ among murals. Our gallery has been purposely reduced and diminished by councillors on the one hand and the tourist boys on the other who go along with the marketing of the “walled city” as if it constituted the only worthwhile point of interest the city has to offer. The truth is, if you take The People’s Gallery out of the equation which is the brainchild of single-mindedness and vision, you would get as many visitors to Derry as you got in 1960, so few indeed that records were not even kept. And in times of recession this is doubly true. Go figure. As the late Harold Pinter said; “There are people out there who want to rule the #&%!! world.”  How true. Whence do they come? Are they born or made? Who is driving? Do your believe in demonic forces, evil spirits? Will science help us to make the perpetual rule and limitless supply of these sods an impossibility? Place your bets.