I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I've sometimes lied. Not in the factual blogposts, of course, but sometimes at the end or in other posts, I'll lie. Take the final line in my HS2? blogpost, published a year ago:
I will write up a follow-up to this article if something big happens with HS2.
Quite a few months later, something big did happen with HS2 - Rishi Sunak and his Conservative government scrapped about half of it, rendering it a London to Birmingham rump. I was going to write a blogpost on this news, but had second thoughts, because ultimately I didn't want to write it. There was no reason to force myself to write an update, especially as the blog was in its infancy when I wrote the initial post. Most new readers would likely have been confused to spot me discuss HS2 like this.
Ultimately, I find myself making too many promises which, for better or for worse, lapse. I tell myself I'll do something and I don't do it. Maybe it's not lying, merely procrastination, but even then, what difference does it make?
Obviously people don't trust bloggers that much - if you, Honourable Reader, asked me to keep a very important secret or entrusted me with someone or something, you'd be making a mistake, and I'd be surprised you even offered as such. It's definitely enjoyable, being a blogger, but all bloggers are human (unless AI and bots have advanced that much) and are infallible.
Blogging is a fun exercise, I love writing, and the last thing I'd want is for it to become a job where I force myself to write specifically for an audience. There's one reason why I don't put ads on the blog - I don't want to serve Google's search engines, and if that means the blog's not SEO friendly and thus isn't indexed, then oh well.
Apologies to those who wanted an HS2 update - I didn't want to write it.
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