Joshua Rozenberg has started something like a blawg on the Telegraph‘s website. He specifically says it’s not a blog: though his reasons are wrong, if he thinks blogging means you write about yourself or simply recycle stories and opinions from other sources. I’m sorry he has such a limited view of what blogs can be, and surprised, given his wife’s success with blogging. But in a way he’s right – normally people would be able to comment on a blog, and you can’t on his site, which is a pity. It’d have been good to welcome him fully to the UK blawg world.
Small quibbles, though, those – I’ll be watching his feed from now.
Rozenberg’s page is very good but I feel he is rather deferential to the “great and the good” of the legal establishment. Would be good to hear some reasoned criticism. That’s why your blog is good.
Thanks, Peter! I use that phrase, “the great and good”, myself, with a derisively contemptuous tone similar to the one you may use yourself.
Personally, I am enjoying the Guardian’s law page which has comment from people in many walks of life. I believe that lawyers need to keep their feet on the ground and be sure that the law remains relevant and sensible. Carefully considered criticism of even the most eminent judges should be encouraged in my view.