I am afraid that Jim, as I have said before, appears to be blind to the tone and content of his own posts. Just now, despite only recently having, as I understand it, excused some of his outbursts as 'temper', he is claiming to be acting for the best of the thread in attempting to close down or put an end to the tone of Iains' posts. I cannot really distinguish between the two motives in Jim's posts, though I do note that Jim seems to accuse Iains of being about to get the thread closed down by posting insulting stuff in the same post as Jim posts insulting stuff.

I am baffled by the comments on Iain' 'race' as I for one have no idea what 'race' Iains is supposed to be a member of. If this is a reference to some so-called 'Irish' race, then I think the comment needs careful examination. I for one find 'race' a problematic concept in any case, and certainly a 'social construct'.