Brexit

[Graham Breeze]

Oh Dear.

I never joined the CCF at my school and so I have no experience of military discipline, although I believe some posters have served in the armed forces, but it seems to me that if I were being paid by the state to learn to shoot straight and kill people I might be allowed a little slack - presumably a picture of, say, Osama Bin Laden would have been more acceptable?

Over many years I have formed a view of posters, not least through meeting them at, would-you-believe-it? fell races - and people are what they are and entitled to hold the beliefs they hold.

However the benefit of meeting people in the flesh is that you know their real name and may also know what they do for a living and that provides context for what they may say on here. That is not to say that a ditch-digger cannot have a valid view on macro-economics but well...I put great store on people's socio-economic and occupational backgrounds in underpinning their view of the world. So I don't think Forum posters should be anonymous.

I also suspect that the intensity of people logging on is higher when there is a frisson of debate and that nobody logs onto a dull forum - the right shoes for the PPP race anyone? - so people should not get over-excited when views are expressed that they don't like very much. They can be ignored.

Of the newer posters I find the views of Oracle quite interesting. I think he/she is closer to Cassandra than the Oracle at Delphi who was gnomic whereas our Oracle verges on the hysterical and I note that as time has gone on the ability to use spellcheck appears to have been lost; but I do read what Oracle has to say.

Anyway the Forum is a broad church and hopefully will survive the current withdrawal of one of its longest contributors. I say "current" because we have been here before.

And tomorrow is another day and the Three Peaks Race is nearly here!