I wrote Not so much "ooops" as "why don't I wear a paper bag over my head until some time in February?" that, for embarrassment. An offlist colloquial comment in shorthand language to David Gerard, it went to the list. To try to correct impressions (David and I lived through the relevant conversations), here is a better version: Paul found himself exposed as perceived to be further to the "left" (in the terms I was discussing) than anyone else on ArbCom; had to take flak from various people based on those perceptions; but the reason for his resignation was not that, but the case with Lar and Slim. So you-all should not have heard those things from me, in those terms. Grovel. Charles

On 14/12/2010 19:40, George Herbert wrote: Oh, quite. What I described was history. Charles