I'm intrigued to discover that acerbic Yorkshire Post columnist Bill Carmichael has been blogging on 20six since July and I've never seen it until now. Although on starting to read it I had a strange sense of deja vu. Sure enough, most of the blogs appear to have already been published in the Yorkshire Post.
I'm not sure what to make of this. Bill's not the only columnist to maintain a blog, but I'm not sure how many of the others recycle their newspaper column as opposed to creating fresh copy.
One advantage of a blog is that a good columnist should provoke anger or delight and a blog provides a good feedback mechanism for debate.
I quite like Bill's column, it usually provokes a sigh and a feeling of sympathy that one man can be so mistaken, so often. On the other hand I no longer feel even outraged by his fellow columnist Bernard Dineen who was out of touch ten years ago and would now be best pensioned off in a corner of Yorkshire untouched by any trace of modern Britain.
