THE GUARDIAN'S very charming and persuasive Lisa O'Carroll reported extensively on my blog last week here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/05/neville-thurlbeck-tabloids-readers?INTCMP=SRCH

Lest people really do believe Lisa's claim that I have undergone a Damascene conversion, my very close friends are already bored with this blog, saying, "You've been banging on about this for years!"

I'd also like to think I was issuing words of advice to a wayward old friend rather than "launching a scathing attack" on him!

Thankyou for taking the time to read this blog in the numbers you have (5,327 as of 8.10pm tonight). We are all in this debate together, friends and foes alike.

And whatever your opinion, I will publish it. Just keep it clean and legal.