I’ve had a short and not exactly illustrious blogging career. In March this year I created my first ever blog -called ‘A Very British Insurgency’ - whose basic idea was to let rip at the various evils of Blairite rule and expose the man for the charlatan and criminal I believe he is. The blog amounted to one long, intense rant which attracted, at its height, about 80 readers a day and some kind commentary from people whose own blogging efforts were vastly superior to mine.

I was invited to contribute posts to another blog called ‘Once More’ - a rather more sophisticated ponder on the state of conservitism - the political ideology - and the Conservative Party itself. If you’re politically minded then I recommend it.

Now I have this one and have decided to lay A Very British Insurgency to rest. It was a single issue blog which was both its strength and its weakness. It was a strength because it was highly focussed and, in that its aim was to expose the inadequacies of this government, there was no shortage of material.

But it was a weakness also because posts to the blog required some research (yes, I do have a passing acquaintance with accuracy!) and because it meant that I couldn’t blog on some of the many other areas that tickle my fancy from time to time. Sometimes, it’s nice to write something lightweight, humorous or just a little unusual.

This new blog has a different remit. It’s not a single-issue site and can cover a wider variety of areas. And this means therefore that I have a variety of ways now in which to bore the life out of the unfortunates that stumble onto it…