The 2019 posts

This year’s posts are now available to read as a book - To Whom it may Concern – the 2019 posts (click on the title in the list at the top-right corner of the blog's masthead for the up-to-date version). 

But a rather special one this year - as it is, for the first time, organised thematically. A special introduction to each of the 5 main parts of the collection tries to provide an appropriate perspective.

The book’s title is a tribute to a poet whose verses I would declaim during the various demonstrations in which I participated during the 1970s. The subtitle of that particular poem was “Tell me Lies about Vietnam” – highly appropriate these days…..

Bloggers are sometime accused of egocentricity. But the discipline of presenting the year’s posts not only in book form but thematically has been a useful corrective to any tendency of self-centredness. Another advantage of the format is that repetition and illogicalities are soon spotted.
The tables which have also been added at the beginning of each section have also added an important discipline  - with the final column trying to entice the reader into the post with a hint about what they might find…what they might find…

Last year I included in the Annexes my selection of Key Books of the Century; and a Sceptic’s Glossary. These are important enough to be retained but I have also returned this year to the habit of listing favourite blogs and journals….