It’s been the busiest few days this blog has seen, in its two years’ existence. Bizarre that it should be Barbra Streisand herself that should propel it to such activity (it’s so gay). At the time of writing this post, that page has been viewed by 1,736 people, two-thirds of whom found it via Google. Of the 54 comments posted so far in reaction to my piece on the concert, only one was by a declared blogger, with a link to a blog or website. The rest, it seems, are people who don’t ordinarily post to blogs, and certainly have never been to my blog before. That’s borne out by the fact that according to analytics, not one person used the page’s comments RSS feed to keep track of the discussion, a blogger’s knack.

Why should this be? While I find it fascinating that a blog can become the place for people to vent their frustrations over a particular event (and, indeed, I’m gratified, for the purpose of doing my theatre reviews is exactly to encourage debate), I would have thought that somewhere like boards.ie would be far more suitable for something that has affected so many people. But then, of course, MCD have the clout to prevent debate from happening on the internet, and the good folks in boards.ie have felt obliged to ban all mention of anything MCD related. This is so unhealthy it reeks. So unhappy consumers come here to comment. But with the Streisand Generation, perhaps that sort of bullying can’t be sustained.

Public Inquiry asks some very pertinent questions – why should MCD be allowed to set up its own committee to examine its own role in the fiasco? Why isn’t the National Consumer Agency leading the enquiry?