"Yet on this site no one has any required fields. It is clear that the webmasters are happy to let anyone make any unattributed comments for or against John Leech, but they want to be able to attribute them if they talk about the Labour party." Have you tried posting with no name? I don't really understand your argument - are you praising this site for being pretty much anonymous, or is that a problem too. I doubt you would be happy if you had to submit your postcode. However, we do record the IP address from which posts are made, and to give an example, it is possible to see that Cllr Keith Whitmore posted from the Town Hall, and someone else calling themselves "Thomas Graham" and purporting to be me also posted from the same Town Hall IP. On a different subject altogether, should we spend £98Million on fixing/modernising/refurbishing the town hall? (see Fri MEN)