I've just received a PM calling for what amounts to sending Walkaboutsverse to Coventry, mistakenly assuming I'd be all for such an idea. Nothing could be further from the truth; this is an open forum for a frank and free exchange of ideas no matter how awry such ideas may - or may not - be perceived to run from whatever sort of orthodoxy people assume to be the correct way of thinking.

No doubt others have received such a PM and I sincerely hope they too oppose such an ostracisation, which amounts to the worst form of discrimination there is - i.e. the persecution of an individual because they happen to hold a different opinion.

In this matter I am as alarmed as I am bitterly disappointed.

Meanwhile, back to the merry fray!