I criticised Turton a number of times on this website, including coming up with the term Turtonite (often through proxies such as Almas as I was banned for years 
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Now that being said, I really do think his blog evolved in later years. While it still had the predictable pro-green knee-jerk reactions from time to time, it became more independent, more insightful, and slightly less know-it-all. It will be missed by many. I read it regularly.
Blog writing can be exhausting, but am curious as to why he has decided to stop the Brady typing and shut it down.