There have to be rules

I promised to explain my decision to forbid Mike Barnes from this site, not least because I suspect it will be misrepresented elsewhere.

I was quite willing (if not exactly delighted) to tolerate Mr Barnes's contributions indefinitely, provided that he stuck to matters of opinion. But I was not prepared to allow him (or anyone else) to make factually untrue statements about me here. His suggestion that I had in any way derived or copied my positions on public policy from the positions adopted...