Steve -- Re my last post: here, with details of thread &c, is one sometime response by Jim to my having mentioned his leftwing views, which should elucidate the point I was making:

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Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
From: Jim Carroll - PM
Date: 25 Apr 14 - 04:26 AM
"the insufferable self-righteous little lefty prig!"
What my politics are is none of your business and has nothing to do with what I say - I am not a member of any particular party - I have no political line - I haven't voted in a general election of well over a decade.
If anything, I am a humanist (with a small h) and a pacifist (with reservations).
Some time ago you bent over backwards to find my politics - no doubt to use a a smearing substitute for argument - I declined, to no avail - you have decided to use a fictionalised construction of my politics as a substitute anyway