{"id":92965,"date":"2026-06-08T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=92965"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:23:14","slug":"your-view-on-the-view-on-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/08\/your-view-on-the-view-on-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Your view on &#8216;The View on&#8230;&#8221; series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not write that many posts about the process of blogging, and I have already done one this morning, but I feel the need to do a second.<\/p>\n<p>As some readers here will have noticed, I have begun a new series of posts under the generic title \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/07\/richard-murphys-view-on-the-household-analogy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Murphy's view on...<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Having chosen that generic title, I have then drafted these in the third person because they are designed for sharing and as a means of accessing some of my thinking on particular subjects, as well as related reading lists. So far, most have linked to more than 20 other posts on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>However, that choice to write in the third person, as if I am writing about myself,\u00a0 appears to be upsetting some people, and they have suggested that these should be drafted in the first person, or as explicitly personal opinion, instead.<\/p>\n<p>I can see the argument for both approaches, and before going much further into this series, for which I have around 90 titles listed at present, I would like some guidance from you as to which approach I should use.<\/p>\n<p>Might you therefore be willing to complete this poll, which might help me decide?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-422\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_422\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/Blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_422_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"402649ac32\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In what style should the \u201cView on...\u201d series be written?  In the third person  In the first person  I do not care; do what you want<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-422-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1857\" name=\"poll_422\" value=\"1857\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1857\">In the third person<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1858\" name=\"poll_422\" value=\"1858\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1858\">In the first person<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1859\" name=\"poll_422\" value=\"1859\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1859\">I do not care; do what feels right to you<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(422);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(422); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-422-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not write that many posts about the process of blogging, and I have already done one this morning, but I feel the need<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/08\/your-view-on-the-view-on-series\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92966,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92965\/revisions\/92966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}