The threat of a nuclear attack on the tea-loving UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released expose.

Government officials planning food supplies said the tea position would be "very serious" after a nuclear war. "It would be wrong to consider that even 1oz per head per week could be ensured," they stated.

The papers were released under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Archives at Kew in Surrey, England. The documents said a nuclear conflict would result in the loss of three-quarters of tea stocks. For Brits used to turning to tea as other nationals might seek air to breathe, this would be a national disaster beyond comparison.

One Government paper from April 1955 said: "The advent of thermonuclear weapons... has presented us with a new and much more difficult set of food defence problems."

The East London Mosque has been associated with extremism since it was built. It was partly funded by Wahhabists from Saudi Arabia. When a study centre was set up as an extension of the mosque in June 2004, the guest of honour who opened it was Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais (Sudeis), senior imam at the Grand Mosque of the Ka'abah at Mecca.

The chairman of the East London Mosque is Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari. In June 2006, he became the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, a group which has promoted itself as the leading voice of "moderate" Islam in Britain. Dr Bari invited the far-from-moderate Islamist Delear Hossain Sayeedi to the mosque in 2006, a man who has called Hindus excrement and supported the killing of US and British soldiers.

A case finished at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday this week which raises questions about whether the East London Mosque is an asset to the community or a threat.

Dissemination of Western civilisation has been uneven and much Western example has been rejected by people who see it as an affront. Take the Islamists, who created whole new versions of their religion, amongst which sits Wahhabism, in reaction to aggressive Western successes compared to the decline of their Muslim world. Their fear that Western civilisation will sweep all before it still exists today - personified by members of Al Qaeda, anti-integration cultural Islamists in Western lands, and leaders of theocratic Islamist states, like Iran.

Today the very account of the story of Western civilisation is seen by some as an aggression. In a world of relativistic values and moral equality, the very idea of a West-centred (Eurocentric) global history is denounced as arrogant and oppressive. It is "designed", so we are told, to justify Western domination over the East by pointing to European superiority. What we should have instead is a multicultural, globalist, egalitarian history that tells something (preferably something good) about everybody. We are told that the European contribution (including that of the more recent European colonies, like the US) - no more or less than the invention and definition of modernity as we know it - should be seen as fortuitous or, to use the fashionable word amongst those who can but teach, contingent.

We have seen many examples of this Europhobia:

Take voyages and discovery. The Chinese are supposed to have found the Americas - at least they should have. As are the Africans. And the Japanese. Europeans were just lucky to document their "discovery". Or, Europeans were so vile and wretched of course they stumbled across the Americas - they took all the wealth of their discovered territory (the gold, the silver), dealt a blow to native (far more civilised) populations with mere thuggery and only then, after trading their wealth with Asia, did they call themselves top of the tree and praise themselves for their great civilizing mission, spirituality and achievements.

 "A day like today is not a day for sound bites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do," Tony Blair declared in April 1998, just before the signing of the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland. What a decade ago seemed like an intractable war in Northern Ireland - a bitter, divisive conflict inside the country, spilling out into mainland Britain and prolonged by an IRA mafia with Diaspora around the world - today looks like a genuine calm. Northern Ireland has genuinely benefited from Blair's hand of history and prospers in its new found peace.

Meanwhile, with more than 70,000 dead after a conflict between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan government that has lasted for nearly three decades, peace seems further away than ever in Sri Lanka - the forgotten island in South Asia. The civil war between the mainly Hindu Tamils and the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese erupted in the 1980s with Tamils pressing for self-rule.

While the majority of the fighting took place in the north and east of the country, Tamil Tiger rebels carried out devastating suicide bombings in Colombo in the 1990s. A ceasefire and a political agreement brokered by Norway in 2002 raised hopes for a peaceful solution, but with violence escalating in 2006 the conflict is once again turning into a fully-fledged civil war which the Tigers themselves are calling "the Final War".

The Tamil Tigers are a proscribed terrorist entity in thirty-two different countries. While they are infamous for their use of suicide bombers, what is less well known is that they run their own airports, arms procurement businesses and a bank. Their funding comes mostly from Tamil Diaspora in the UK, Canada and Australia, who are pressed into sending funds through Tamil Tiger fronts, particularly charities, to Sri Lanka, for fear that their relatives living in Sri Lanka will experience the full brunt of Tamil Tiger officials if funds do not materialize. The Tigers, like Al Qaeda, use criminal means to make up most of the rest of their funding, for example credit card fraud and trading in counterfeit goods. The group is advanced - garnering political support abroad, running a network of businesses, drug and arms running. The Tigers have been known to procure passports for Islamist terrorists and have proven themselves capable of air and sea attacks on Sri Lankan government service personnel, as well as civilian targets.