They say fine words won't do it, but then we Yorkshire folk don't go in for them anyway. Christmas 2007 is over and it's time to start a new year, with a good hard look at what is happening in and around this sceptered isle. I may be known as a bit of a Polyanna but even I can't avoid the realisation that something is not quite right in 21st-century Britain and I am going to try to have a bash at documenting what I see and hear on my travels. Wish I had done it earlier!