I must also announce that the main page of this site will flatline for the timebeing, although I'll keep my appearances and biog pages up to date. I've enjoyed (by which I mean to say I really disliked and resented) contributing to this site in an unpaid, compulsive, repetitive and futile fashion for two and a half years. I now step back "without a murmur and with the fortitude that religion alone can give," to quote from a tombstone I saw at Exeter Cathedral yesterday.
I will focus now on journalism, presenting/chairing, broadcasting and books instead of personal blogging. My articles on the arts and culture, social justice and international affairs, along with my work on global development for the International Reporting Project, will appear in the Huffington Post (another new alliance which I am very happy to reveal) and elsewhere.