25/01/2008
The follow-up question there would be: and do we care that there are things we do not know we do not know.
First, let me deal with a seemingly small problem that has arisen and about which my colleague
wrote in what I thought was a very moderate fashion (
well, at first, anyway). It is related to the main theme, I promise you.
The point at issue was the use of material laboriously put together by the editors of this blog, chiefly my colleague, by members of the MSM without any acknowledgement and the subsequent mutual admiration society between them, their friends and sundry bloggers. Devilâs Kitchen is excepted as are all bloggers who use our material and link back to the original. That is what the blogosphere is for and we have no desire to stop that.
On the other hand, neither of us is very keen on the advice that we should shrug our shoulders and get on with life; these things happen and anyway the cause matters more than the individual. Well, thatâs very nice, of course, but it is not your work that is being nobbled and we have not empowered anyone to accept apologies on our behalf.
A longish
piece on all these matters on EUReferendum2.