It has been a long and crazy ride, but we are still here snarling, laughing, bloviating and pondering 20 years later.
In these increasingly intolerant times, never have independent sites been more needed than now.
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Twenty years of SamizdataNovember 2nd, 2021 |
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Thank you for providing the site Perry.
Congratulations to you guys, and thank you from me. I donât comment very often, but Iâve been reading along for most of those 20 years, and youâre right about it being more important now than ever.
Congratulations. No small feat.
Twenty years?!
From, the wild west of the Internet, which in our naivete, we thought to be outwith the reach of government – to the ‘Online harms bill’.
Congratulations, and thanks for Samizdata.
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Many Happy Returns!
APL – sadly so.
You would think that, with time off for good behaviour, I’d have been out by now đ€Ł.
But seriously, thanks to our gracious hosts for two decades of hospitality. I hope to be logging on to the Blue Screen from the verandah of the Shady Acres Retirement Community.
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Congratulations for reaching your twenty year milestone. I’m rarely a commenter here but I always find the pieces here stimulating and interesting whether I wholly agree with them or not. Well done for your persistence and longevity.
It’s only when I think that I used to download new articles from the RSS feed on 56k dialup and read them offline while I’m now on 100Mbps broadband that I realise how long it’s been. But I well remember the sense of â how to put it? â relief that there were people in Britain who thought the same way I do. I don’t think anyone stumbling across the site today would get that. And that’s a cause for hope. (Although APL isn’t wrong.)
Anyway, congratulations on two decades, and thanks for putting up with us in the comments.
Congratulations and many thanks for the decades of stories, quotes and reasoned commentary. You are defenders of Western Civilization.
Congratulations from across the pond here in the USA. Itâs so good to get an outside perspective away from the lock-step bubble that MSM and social media have become here. đđđ
Congratulations indeed!
And to think – shame! – that I’ve only been reading you for 16 of those years…
Keep up the good work.
I think Iâve only been reading the site for about 15 of those years, but congrats Perry on such a consistently interesting and thought-provoking place to visit. Itâs one of very few that I read every day, and itâs practically the only one where I bother to comment (occasionally). I should also thank you for other things I know youâve done in private to help other like-minded organisations. Keep up the good work, and hereâs to another 20 years!
Well done and thanks to you all. I donât comment much now, but have a look most days to enjoy laughing at the idiocies that surround us.
PS I was very sorry to read about Brian Micklethwait.
Kind regards.
âThe last toryboyâ is a moniker I only ever used on here, because I signed up in the Blair era when it felt I was the only non-Labour voter in the country.
Much has changed in 20 years. Aside from technology advancing not a lot of it good unfortunately.
Samizdata is starting to feel like the last website left standing these days, itâs why Iâm lurking a bit less. Thanks for keeping the flame alive.
Proud to have been involved with this blog from day one.
Every year i post a comment of felicitations, but 20 years is special.
On to the 3rd decade!
I sometimes pause to think about the dedication that goes into running this blog, and I shudder at the thought of the effort, a shudder of praise.
20 years ago I thought that the UK was becoming a one-party state, and that got worse in the following years, now it is a uniparty state but outside the EU. We have seen the true nature of the State in the last 18 months, Putin and Xi are not my enemies, my enemy is ‘my own’ government. We can only carry on making that point.
Excellent blog, one of the best.
Thank you Perry and webmaster for keeping this great site up and running. You are defending us all.
Many thanks to PdH, and thanks as well to all those who appear on the left side of the screen under “Authors”, especially the current ones. You can’t control what blather us commenters can come up with, but you do very well at getting the right balls rolling.
Amen from nourishing obscurity.
Been here for a long time too. Keep up the good work!
Agreed, thanks to Perry et al. for this site.
Putin and Xi are not my enemies, my enemy is âmy ownâ government. We can only carry on making that point.
Quite so.
Don’t kid yourselves. It is perfectly rational and consistent to regard both the State under which you suffer and those foreign States (which are certainly just as bad, but in different ways) as your mortal enemies.
Warm congratulations to all concerned, PdH, JP et al, and the commenters, too. I missed the first couple of years, but ever since I first came across it, a daily visit has been a must. It is an oasis of sense and rationality amid the maelstrom of nonsense, especially in much of the legacy media.
Onwards and upwards.
Donât kid yourselves blah blah
If the tsunami of propaganda about COP26 and Net Zero means anything, it is that the governing class intends to do mortal harm to me and mine.
Xi and Putin are tyrants: but any harm that they do to me and mine will be incidental – just business. I have no sense that they would prefer me, and anyone like me, to be gone – permanently.
Congrats! I have been a reader since 2002 I think. Donât often comment but your site has been a great read and source of information for me over all these years.
Three Cheers for Samizdata.net! I rarely comment but I have been reading this site since the early days, when the Instapundit recommended in early 2002. I gave up my own blog when Facebook attained a âsignificant presenceâ in 2007. That was a foolish decision. I am so glad you wise folk kept on blogging.
Here is to another 20 years!