I’m painfully aware that a number of new readers have been drawn to the blog due to its being linked in relation to www.shaggyblogstories.co.uk, and as that book was very much about the funny, I shall try to hang on to that newfound audience by upping the humour content.

Hopefully that won’t mean lots of self-consciously ‘LOL!!!!111!!!’ style posts. If we’re lucky, it’ll probably mean gratuitous sarcasm and sniping, plus puns. And maybe some points that actually have some kind of intellectual resonance.

No, you’re right, let’s not hope for too much…