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There aren’t many more venerable columnists in the UK newspaper trade than William Rees-Mogg, former editor of the Times, most famous in some circles for writing the leader about the Rolling Stones drug trial of 1967 entitled "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?".

Now he’s started blogging and, according to journalism.co.uk, it was all his idea.

In his first post he outlines some of what will be "on topic for him":

I am particularly interested in the interface between economics and
politics which I have been writing about since I joined the Financial
Times as a trainee in 1952.  In the 1950s I worked on the F.T. with
Nigel Lawson and Shirley Williams.  I see both of them nowadays in the
House of Lords, and we are still discussing the same subjects, fifty
years later.

I’ve subscribed to the blog and filed him in a Bloglines folder alongside the entertaining Boris Johnson. Come on Liberal and Labour ranters, a man cannot survive on Milliband alone. At this rate the UK commentariat on blogs will be true blue all the way. Where’s Tony Benn for goodness sake, blogging and podcasting could have been designed specifically for that man…

Meantime, hurrah for Ress-Mogg, king of the codger-bloggers!