McGrath of Harlow wrote:"We don't know all the facts. All we have is some press reports which are open to interpretation in various ways, and inevitably can't tell the whole story.

As so often happens here people find themselves passionately squaring up in a battle about a particular case about which they don't have enough information to be certain about anything".

Of course this is true. However this is true of practically most things on this board. It's a board that deals with a lot of history (often dating back many hundreds of years), folklore, the origins of songs and traditions that have become fogged in time or old age &c. We don't have all the facts on any of those things. Should the 'above the line' part of the forum get closed down?

Similarly, with the below the line stuff, all the news articles are in a similar position: it's unlikely we'll ever have all the facts. Should that part of the forum get closed down too?