Right. So you might have noticed, over the years, that sometimes there is a website post that has comments the number of which, while I'm not belittling the commitment of our readers, is not reflected in our demographic research. There are billions of them.

Twenty billion comments per post is flattering, sure, but then when you read them you find out that many of them are advertising nefarious activities, soft drink companies or alien invasions.

In other words, our website has been getting spam.

The only way to get rid of this spam is to independently delete each comment. Our website almost exploded the other day (this is not quite how it was explained to me but I'm sure that's close) and as a result nobody can make comments at the moment. SORRY!

Also, if you've made an insightful comment in the past and it has accidentally been deleted in the past few days, this is nothing personal, I assure you.

If you'd really like to comment, and who wouldn't, email us through the contact us page.

We'll be up and about in a moment.