It is not often I have serenely sensible dialogues that stack up in terms of reason, evidence and humane values. I would like more. The blog is an attempt to build a small community of civilised discourse where we can probe a wide variety of topics in as much detail as it takes. Frankly it's for geeks, and even then only a small subset of geeks. We happy few.
READ THIS FIRST. I am new to blogging, so this is a kind of trial project. During the Falklands conflict of 1982 I found myself writing down my thoughts about it from time to time, much as bloggers do now. Recently I found these papers and because it's topical I thought some people might be interested in what was going through the mind of a typical Guardian-reading thirty-something in 1982. It's occasionally quite surprising!
My plan is this: to reproduce the pages facsimile, so readers can see it's genuine; then to transcribe so readers can read it; then to make comments clarifying the text where necessary, explaining things, and giving my opinions (for what they're worth) on what it all means.
I shall try to upload each instalment on the date it was originally written, but 30 years later. There are 21 pages, in six bits, between April 28 and June 12.
Problem about blogs is that they are always backwards, so if you are new to it, for a linear story like this you have to go right to the bottom and work backwards, or use the dated links on the sidebar.
It's lots of text, not very bloggy, but that's its nature. And sorry no pictures!
I'm not expecting many comments for this particular project, but of course they are welcome.
Being new to all this, I really don't know what to do next.
People are emailing me saying they can't post comments.
Perhaps this is the way to do it, but do people have to sign in? Can't you just write something? Dunno. Back later.
