Insofar as your comment is also directed at current frontpagers/moderators, I have to say your point is well made. I am currently extremely constrained in terms of the amount of time I can devote to blogging, and so I am restricting myself to a narrow range of topics. If I cannot understand a comment, or understand how it relates to the diary or other comments, my current practice is simply to ignore it - unless I perceive it to be offensive in some way.

If someone wants to start a different conversation, fine, but I would prefer if they did so by writing their own diary - preferably with an intro/summary which gives an overview of the argument being made, and which encourages others to engage. I am not and have no ambition to be a legal scholar and confront matters of law only where they directly impinge on political developments, however there is no reason why the  European Tribune cannot support support separate legal conversations for those who wish to engage in them.


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