'Have you done your page yet?' said Mr Loach, not three hours after assembly, so, chastened, here I am. Thank you to the members of RMSG who have sent in responses to last time's, along with some others: I will read them as I wait for the 1st VIII to zoom past me at Henley tomorrow. Good luck, boys.

I promised the story of the Swedish school. It was in the Times on Saturday: a pupil sent out some invitations to a birthday party (he was 8 years old, for goodness' sake) but two of his classmates were left off the invitation list and that, said his school, was forbidden. It violated the rights of the two in the class who had been left out. You can read it at www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4228131.ece.  Ludicrous.

Easy to say another example of political correctness gone mad, but actually an interesting dilemma. It does seem mean to leave 2 classmates out, doesn't it? But even more, it seems counter-productive and silly - and potentially damaging - to make a protest out of it. Life is at least in part about coping with rejection.

So for me the most sinister part of the story is the knee-jerk appeal to rights.  'You can't do that', goes the cry, 'You have no right to', or 'it infringes my rights'.

Rights to what, I wonder? To be tolerated, unharmed, allowed to live in peace, think, speak without fear, learn, be ourselves? These are rights (ask a Zimbabwean). But to be invited to a party? Not to have something which others have? To be allowed to take the law into our own hands if we are not happy with life, or the behaviour of others? Nobody has these rights, because they ain't rights. As Joe Joseph, also writing in the Times put it, every child has the right to be listened to, but not necessarily to have their every wish granted.

£20 prize between now and September (that's me done for this term I suspect) for the best 'editorial comment' (100 words or so) on a news item which seems to you to be absurd!