»In which I air grievances

* the ongoing dumbing-down of articles. The average article length shrinks; the vocabulary becomes less descriptive and more bland; and the sentence structure becomes less compound-complex and more boringly compound.

* the absence of location maps, and the constant referral to "Africa" rather than specific countries (this latter bit is a particular axe I have to grind)

* the incredibly complicated homedelivery web site, which does not work with Safari (fails to set necessary auth cookies); which perpetually tells me that for my security my password has been reset

* the silly TimesSelect change of access, which restricts what articles non-print-subscribers can see