No mod is following any guidance from anyone and I'm getting a bit sick of these insupportable attacks on them. I don't know how many mods operate on this board, but I only know three of them. Two of them dislike me intensely and I've had many a spat. The other is neutral and doesn't engage with me at all easily, though (I think) we enjoy at least a bit of mutual respect. Whatever else, they are all very strong-minded individuals. I have little idea as to which one monitors this thread but if they're taking "guidance" well all I can say is that it isn't coming from me. I'd like to suggest that, whilst enquiry of mods may well be legitimate, public criticism of them is rarely if ever justifiable. It's a good job I'm not one, because if I was I would not tolerate some of the nonsensical and illiberal criticism we see coming from Iains, bobad and Nigel Parsons.

And this will be deleted. But I've got it off my chest anyway.