Just a major shout-out to my fellow Brits, Clive, Danny and Alex, for their sterling work over the holidays. I stayed the course, as mandated by Aaron, to stay offline altogether for a week: blog-detox of a kind. I feel much fresher after a hectic fall – and I owe that to the capable hands of my three stand-ins. I’d like to thank Clive especially for such dogged work. Filling a blog each day is harder than it looks, and Clive faltered not. Keep reading him at his own blog here. You can read Danny Finkelstein in the Times of London here. Alex Massie blogs and writes for TNR.com, whose group-blog, The Plank, keeps improving. My thanks again to them – and to you for your support of the site while I’m getting some R & R.
