I am blogged out today, by which I mean, I need a break.<\/p>\n
I noted a commentator saying this morning that he did not know how I can blog as much as I do. To put that in context I noted in response that this week I have also produced five other educational videos for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, and written most of a book chapter and edited two by other people as part of the Accounting Streams project. I also went to London to do a public meeting. And there was a lot of admin to do for Sheffield University. Blogging is not the day job, as yet.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I have taken criticism for being short-tempered on MMT and have had hostility and accusations of anti-Semiticism from people who think that unless you show a bias to Israel, you are anti-Semitic, revealing in the process that they do not understand the term. There has also been some correspondence on trans issues because I have suggested that this blog is not the place to discuss them - which will remain my position. A blog has to have boundaries, and that subject is beyond the boundaries of this one.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere I have been accused of knowing nothing about how small business works because I am a pure theoretician, which when I was senior partner of an accounting firm for fifteen years and advised hundreds of small and medium sized entities, plus the a few much larger ones, is tedious to deal with.<\/p>\n
So, I am going birdwatching. It takes quite a lot of energy and a very thick skin to write a blog pretty much every day and to have done so for eighteen years. I make mistakes. I know I do, and I will apologise when appropriate. But give me a chance, please. I am human despite all the rumours to the contrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"