{"id":96655,"date":"2026-10-30T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=96655"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:29:08","slug":"blog-comments-are-off-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/10\/30\/blog-comments-are-off-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog comments are off this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I have been through an exhausting few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The blog has, as usual, had content every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So have a number of other platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">YouTube has had a video every day, plus a specially made short video on most days recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On top of that, a book has been created and written, and a publisher has agreed to take the project forward, with the production process now beginning.<\/p>\n<p>We staged an event in Ely.<\/p>\n<p>I have done other media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And then there was the Budget this week, which is always an intensive day, whilst last weekend I worked straight through because of commitments to other organisations and broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As a result, I feel like I need a weekend off, so, quite unusually, <strong>I will be turning off comments on the blog this weekend.\u00a0<\/strong>I expect to turn them off by mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There will be videos, and maybe a post or two over the weekend, but I just need a break from the continual pressure of knowing there are comments to deal with, and I trust you will understand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Normal service will resume on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And please do not email me instead of commenting unless it is urgent. Having to deal with emails instead really will not help.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been through an exhausting few weeks. The blog has, as usual, had content every day. So have a number of other platforms. YouTube<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/10\/30\/blog-comments-are-off-this-weekend\/\"><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-96655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96655","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=96655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96698,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96655\/revisions\/96698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}