Seven Up Today

Can I have been sitting here typing away for seven years now? It seems I can: it is exactly seven years since the first Zelo Street post. The audience then was rather smaller than today’s - it wasn’t until later the following year that the Twitter feed started, with a Facebook presence following in early 2012.

The kinds of subjects featured in the first few months were pretty much the same as nowadays: Zelo Street majored on the Phone Hacking scandal from the word go, mused on the shortcomings of London’s increasingly occasional Mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, exposed the lack of honesty that is Network Rail, observed the vanity of newspaper owners like Richard “Dirty” Desmond, and called out the likes of the so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance.

Today the blog is still taking press owners and their editors to task on a regular basis, together with pointing up the rank hypocrisy of the Fourth Estate in attacking the BBC while using the Corporation’s programmes to generate pages of copy and online clickbait.

And I make no apology for backing moves for genuinely independent regulation of the press, nor for finding adversely on the whining and bleating hacks who have taken to talking well, but lying badly, about the Leveson Inquiry and its subsequent proposals. It is not a coincidence that the Hacked Off campaign is supported wholeheartedly here on Zelo Street.

Will there be a pause in blogging to mark the seventh anniversary? You jest. It is, as with every day, business as usual. Zelo Street isn’t going away any time soon. As Mrs T once said, JUST REJOICE AT THAT NEWS.