For starters

First ever blog.

Been meaning to set this up for a while, thinking about ideas and themes. This will be very much an amatuer blog, no fancy-dannery, with a pretty simple purpose, but hopefully interesting content.

The key theme is 44 minutes - forty minutes to write, four minutes to read.

Time, as always is precious for people. So my purpose is to write some interesting, illuminating and stimulating blogs, make some points, and do so concisely to be read in 4 minutes. Sounds like a good idea - but as ever the test will be to achieve this in reality.

Themes will be whatever I am taken to write or comment about on a given day - I could do a list now, but it would be a pointless exercise in that I'm sure it wouldn't be comprehensive. So, you'll have to wait and see.

Hope you enjoy reading - one key theme will be free speech and debate, so please do comment away. Never say never, but I'll endeavour not to delete posts that disagree with anything I say, save for legal reasons. And, the ubiquitous spam will be removed.

So, speak to you soon.