Ever since Bonkers’ infancy there have been requests for search facilities and there are none, but in an
effort to be helpful some recurrent subjects have been provided with a quick
access Index, a very few of them accessible from the site menu above. For example the
never ending Leather Bottle demolition and its subsequent neglect.
Index menus and even the Indices themselves have always been somewhat random and dependent on circumstances
prevailing at the time of their creation. Some give latest news first and others
last and that will be time consuming to rationalise; and which is most logical?
Because of that ‘a mess’ might be a fair description.
Menus have grown in number to 38, many of them created by request for a
single researcher and some for my own convenience. Unless you know the URL (link) they
cannot be found and if they were all added to the menu it would become unmanageably
large and bloat every page with unwanted code.
Hence the new Index to Indices accessible from the ‘Indices>Blog collections’ menu
above. Just click on ‘Blog collections’. The submenu remains unchanged and becomes a duplication but I imagine
that will be reduced in size pretty soon.
I am hoping that no one objects to the change. There is no new content but some becomes more easily accessible.
A few years ago a Conservative, Independent, Reform UK, Independent, Restore
Britain Councillor reported me to the police for creating an Index pointing to misdemeanours relating to forgery, fraudulent
behaviour, theft and a Judge's verdict on them, thinking that I had made a special case for one bad apple but
it was just standard Bonkers’ practice. Nevertheless the police charged me for
the perfectly legal ‘crime’ of reporting Court proceedings without comment.
Fortunately the CPS thought they were nuts.
As already indicated, some of the newly revealed Indices require serious overhaul. Those created following an
individual request often include every reference to a single keyword and could do with
a good weeding out for general consumption. Maybe time will be found for that
and maybe it won’t. Meanwhile a whole area of forgotten Bonkers has been opened up
to curious historians.