Everyone should keep a blog. Even long-dead 19th Century philosophers. We’re lucky enough on Nature Network to host the periodic wit and wisdom of Jeremy Bentham, the great philosopher and social reformer.

Until now, Mr Bentham has acted as a contributor to this blog. From today, he becomes an ‘independent and autonomous Nature Network commentator’ with his very own blog, to which his complete archive has been exported.

His chosen title, Thinking Inside the Box, refers to Mr Bentham’s unique habitation. Having died in 1832, the late philosopher was housed, according to his own will, in a cabinet in UCL cloisters. You can visit him there to this day. Let’s hope he settles as comfortably into his new virtual home as that most famous of cabinets.