True Keith. nobody made a stupid assumption. Enough had you weighed up though...

Michael. I have no problem with "right wing distasteful" any more than "left wing distasteful." Both extremes are not to my tastes. In fact, if you get philosophical about it, (as you for one tend to) there is little difference.

Into the semantics of English, "rather" would infer a good distance along the pendulum arc, and the further you go, the more distasteful you get. I sit back and smile as depending on who is disagreeing with me, I am either right wing (Bridge) or left wing (Akenhateon.) It helps I suppose by being an ex miner who became CEO of a manufacturing concern and these days lives on a combination of investments and work in the public sector. Part of me would have shallow people stereotype me as left wing, other parts of me could be stereotyped as right wing.

As I don't see myself as either, (capitalism to fund a social programme works in principle for me..) I have no problem whatsoever in putting, as you say, the two adjectives together.

Truth is, I'm Musket when posting on here.

Anything else you are curious about? Always happy to oblige, always delighted to see people get judgemental based on their preconceptions. Always glad to see the likes of Keith for what they are...