If anyone wants to employ “one economist possum, slightly used, occasionally abused, good with numbers and other stuff. Intermittently snarky but always well humoured”, please see Possum’s post at Pollytics.
I’d be very sad to see Possum become a less regular blogger, but I have oodles of respect for his insistence on quality control, and the amazing amount of effort and time he puts into his psephological writing.
I think there’s a bigger point here about being a writer outside the mainstream media – some people make significant sacrifices elsewhere in their life to do it, and even if you see a few ads on a page, you shouldn’t make any assumption that anyone’s making a living wage from it.
It’s a big ask to do day in day out for years.
