Comments policy

1. Copyright: you own the copyright to your comments, but by commenting you give me a right in perpetuity to display them on this blog, any successor blog or any publication based on this blog. Such use will be limited to a direct quote of your comment or an excerpt from your comment, attributed to the name you post under.
2. Play the ball, not the person: This blog welcomes vigorous discussion and debate, both on and off topic. However, personal insults are not argument. Insulting comments may be deleted. Repeat offenders may be banned.
3. Off topic remarks: If you have something interesting to say that is off topic, be my guest. Off topic remarks that are not interesting may be deleted. I make the decision about what is, and what is not, interesting.   Conspiracy theories are not interesting.