Coming soon at the TLS: New bloggers for old

The slow rebuilding of the TLS website has tested the patience of readers and writers alike.

A few weeks ago my plan was to continue my six-year path of solo blogging on our site until the new TLS online was ready.

And then, and only then, I hoped to lead my colleagues into a new TLS Blog in which all of us, or some of us anyway, would post more regularly about this and that, on a wider range of subjects, in a wider range of languages, to the general greater good.

But instead, and without conscious decision, I stopped the old before the new had begun.

A blog turns out to be deeply attached to the blogger's brain. Somehow the decision to replace it in the future had turned the switch for immediate cessation.

Thus the new TLS blogging team met this morning to accelerate its replacement.

We had an enthusiastic discussion.

By the end of August, this Peter Stothard blog will officially cease.

And, from that time on, I will be back posting here alongside the wisest band of electronic critics we can summon from our midst, a very wise band indeed.

 They will all introduce themselves at the due time — which will be soon.

Thankyou for staying around.

Watch this space.

Mary Beard's inimitable career as a solo blogging artist will continue triumphant and unaffected.