"The only reason I started this thread was because everytime I clicked the 'latest posts' button I would be assaulted with various ravings about the evils of Krudd & co. instead of discovering a great ann. from my chosen stocks."
In actual fact you could easily solve that issue by unselecting politics in the lastest threads edit function.
And in actual fact I think the default would have been for politics forum to be unchecked which means you checked the box at some point....