Oh, I made a tiredness error re: the NY Times, yes, sorry. (I have some memory issues, rather than being an idiot; the Times of London is Murdoch). In what was otherwise a simple and good-natured defence of the BBC on a topic they are quite good at.

For reference, I did not post the BBC link. That was someone else, wasn't it?

What the heck is the rest of this personal character demolition you are doing?

(Absolutely certain I haven't mostly been talking about the press, as it goes.)

Thanks for, er, the invasively rude "welcome". I am actually not that new to HN at all, so much as restarting after a long break from it. But you have fully reminded me why I put an old account beyond my own use so I couldn't continue to use it.

So maybe I will go again.

Stick around. The forum has some problems (like the confidently wrong commenter above), and needs curious, good faith folk to enliven the discussion.