We've had some problems with spam comments, which meant there was no more room on the database to add entries - of any kind -and we had to delete all the previous comments. This ought to be temporary only and we''ll try and get them back as soon as we can.
Happily, my constituency paper, The Oldham Chronicle has picked up the blog: this brief piece ran yesterday.
A mixture of internet access and technical problems meant that the blog has not been updated as promptly as intended, so apologies to anyone who has been waiting for a comment to be published or a new entry to be posted. Glad to say, the problems have now been sorted out and new entries will appear as quickly as I can put them up - including one from Sunday. They'll be posted in the order they were written, for the sake of chronological clarity.