DESPITE the fact that we all like a good rant occasionally it does take a lot to get scores of people angry enough to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard.
In the past week, however, two subjects have provoked more comments on our website than any other for some time (save for football).
But let's not add to the furore surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments.
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Suffice to say, it's astonishing that he, and the large number of professional advisers he has access to, were so naïve as to not realise Dr Williams' remarks were bound to be interpreted, or "misinterpreted", in exactly the way they have been.
It's true we have all been able to hear plenty of interesting definitions of what Sharia is, and isn't, plus the difference between its civil and criminal codes.
And we have seen mainstream politicians right across the spectrum united - in condemning the church leader's remarks.
They are enough in tune with feelings on the street to realise this was something that could never be publicly debated in such terms.
They are also sufficiently politically astute to understand that any public support for Dr Williams would be manna from heaven for those masters of division, the BNP, who thrive by stoking up the flames of fear.
Strange, though, that many other Labour politicians, excluding Pendle MP Gordon Prentice, have not been as vocal about the other subject that has provoked vociferous local debate.
The loss of Burnley's accident and emergency and the fact it is now taking longer for emergency patients to get to casualty in East Lancashire is something that was always certain to worry and anger thousands of people.
It wasn't a case of cuts, we were told, but of improving services by centralising them for the delivery of better quality treatment.
The programme was given the grand title: "Meeting Patients' Needs".
But the case for the changes has never been presented in a way that stood a chance of convincing the people of Burnley and Pendle that their NHS was getting better.
Of course, it might be that decisions were forced because there wasn't enough cash to do anything else.
To carry on with two large hospitals in East Lancashire just wasn't possible because the government was unwilling to allocate the cash to continue to run them properly - especially with the huge amount being repaid to the private sector for Blackburn's enormous PFI hospital.
But that wasn't what we were told.
While Liberal Democrats are making party political capital out of the situation, the truth is that they find themselves pushing at an open door.
People are extremely worried and those politicians and highly-paid managers who steamrollered these changes through must now give a full, understandable and frank explanation of the options they had when they decided to move services.
They should clearly explain why there can be no going back and give us the statistics to prove exactly what is happening without any need for newspapers like this one to use the Freedom of Information Act.
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