A recently published book by Jeff Jarvis, a New York university Professor of Journalism, “The Gutenberg Parenthesis” came under justified ridicule for some of its sweeping statements. I’m certainly not recommending it.

It’s a fairly regular occurrence for economists, historians and the like to poke fun in studies at the age-old practise (common with the ancient Greeks) of older generations bemoaning the contemporary decline of life when compared to the “good old days”. Stuff ran such an article recently in which an economist produced figures to show we’ve never been better off.

I was touched and appreciative of the flood of kind comments when I mentioned I would soon end this Blog (after the election).