The BBC’s response

19 March 2010

Dear Mr Yon

Thanks for your e-mail regarding the BBC News Channel.

Please accept our apologies for the long delay in replying. We know our correspondents appreciate a quick response and we’re sorry you’ve had to wait on this occasion.

I understand you felt a report broadcast on 22 February contained an inaccurate and biased interview regarding the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies in treating cancer.

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Since joining Twitter, more and more I’ve found myself wanting to write essays that don’t fit into 140 characters. I’ve never been particularly verbose; I’ve always just scraped the word requirements in academic contexts, if I managed to complete the assignment at all. But my head is full of stuff and it needs somewhere to overflow occasionally. So it seems it’s time to start a blog, and actually update it.

I’ve decided not to self-host. I have mixed feelings about this, because I have mixed experiences of using hosted services. But we’ll see how things go. At least it’ll be one less system to administer.