But yes, in a nutshell: bloggers need to stop obsessing about each other (Jeez, how many Guido and Dale references did I hear at that meeting- and I arrived late), about Westminster and about party labels, and start writing about what is under their noses, or take a serious interest in policy. Until then, mass trivia and irrelevance.

Yes, I have felt that too many people are rather fruitlessly caught up with “the trivia of day-to-day politics” - as if politics was an end in itself, rather than a means of changing the world for the better. One often comes across a rather breathless obsession with the minutiae of the latest goings-on in the Westminster bubble, which reflects much of what is worst about political journalism in the mainstream media.

On this view, anything that didn’t happen in the past 24 hours is of no interest. Blogs like mine, where I might mention something of longer-term significance based on something I read a week or two ago and have been thinking about since then, don’t seem to get much of a look in.

I also feel that my blog is a bit disregarded because I am not firmly attached to any single political party. A lot of bloggers write from a tribal “my party right or wrong” perspective. I am less interested in political parties as such, and more in policies and ideas.