I just submitted a blog post that the editor refused to publish. Here it is:

I would like to thank Damian Thompson for enabling me, in good conscience, to say a few words about him – a few words I’ve wanted to say for a while. The occasion is his rather personal attack on me a few weeks ago. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/theo-hobson/

He is the sort of religious commentator who confirms the layman’s hunch that religious journalism, and religion generally, is a weird backwater, full of poisonous little reactionaries, with shaky self-knowledge. He is the sort of loudmouth bully-boy who assumes that no one will ever bother holding him to account, never dare to point out his own vulnerability. He gambles on the hunch that he is safe from attack, because to attack him, to name his vulnerability, would be too extreme: it would involve breaking certain rules – easier to let it pass. The vulnerability I refer to is this: he poses as more Catholic than the pope, yet refrains from admitting that there might be a contradiction between this and his own homosexuality. He assumes that no one in the little world of religious affairs commentary would be so impolitic as to point out that this contradiction makes him a rather sad figure, whose tough-talk cannot be taken in the least seriously. Bad assumption.