The time has come, the walrus said, to emigrate to Substack

 

This blog is moving.

After some thought, I am shifting future writing over to Substack, which you can find here:
https://polemicpaine.substack.com it continues to be free. If I took payment I'd have to up the quality, uphold a responsibility and would start sounding like a self promoter. 

There is nothing dramatic in the decision. Platforms change. Habits change. Substack has simply become where readers and writers now seem to gather, and it feels like the right place to continue.

When I first started blogging back in 2010, Blogger was the obvious choice. It was simple, open, and perfectly suited to the way people wrote then. Over the years, this space accumulated its own small archive of thoughts, arguments, detours, and obsessions. That mattered, and still does.

All of those posts have now been migrated to Substack, so the full record of Polemic's Pains lives on there as well, intact and in one place.

After a long pause, I have started writing again and doing so on a platform built for that purpose feels oddly energising. Less fiddling, more writing. More conversation. 

This blog will remain here as a record of those earlier years. New posts, though, will live on Substack.

If you have followed my writing before, I hope you will join me there. And if you are new, then this is the right moment to arrive.

Thank you