There's thread creep, and there's thread sabotage. Conrad is - not for the first time - guilty of the latter. If this were a membership club I'd gladly move for his expulsion, not because I object to him expressing his views (if that were a problem I'd be moving to expel 55% of 'catters, whereas Conrad is unique in this disrespect) but because of his utterly selfish, deliberate, anti-social disruption of on-line conversations.

I've met more bigoted individuals (on both sides of the Northern Ireland "division", for example) but no more anti-social one. In a free society I'd do everything possible to avoid his overbearing company . .

G.