Review of 2010: Most Popular Posts

As is becoming traditional, I’m going spend a couple of posts rounding up the last year on my blog. Today I’ll list the ten most read posts and tomorrow I’ll look at some of my favourites.

  1. Alice in Wonderland
    I really wasn’t very impressed with Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland. But I saw it and wrote about it the weekend it was released – which no doubt accounts for this post’s popularity.
  2. Berlin time
    This post did very well for one that was written so late in the year. In the Daily Mail Peter Hitchins wrote some jingoistic nonsense about the campaign to move the UK to European time. It was really easy to puncture his arguments.
  3. Polite Discourse
    Ah, memories… The day I was called a “sack of shit” by one of the UK’s most popular political bloggers. What a lovely bloke Iain Dale is.
  4. Iain Dale Talks Balls
    And speaking of Iain Dale, here he is again. This time he’s running with a complete non-story about Ed Balls being a member of the Oxford University Conservative Association. I particularly wanted to draw attention to the fact that he failed to link to his source for this story – as the source makes it clear that the story is bollocks.
  5. The People’s Pamphlet
    I don’t usually do April Fools jokes. But I enjoyed being involved in this one. Tim Ireland, Sim-O and I all claimed we were taking a month off work to campaign against Nadine Dorries in Mid Beds.
  6. Snow and Global Warming
    A perennial story. We have a bit of snow in the UK and some idiot thinks that’s conclusive proof that there’s no such thing as global warming. On this occasion it was Ann Winterton speaking in the Commons.
  7. Amazon Kindle
    Usually, posts from the end of the year don’t do so well in this list for obvious logistical reasons. But here’s another post from November that proved rather popular. In it, I reviewed the Amazon Kindle and bemoaned the fact that book publishers are making exactly the same mistakes with DRM that record companies made before them.
  8. Press Complaints Commission
    Anther project I was involved in with Tim Ireland and some other sensible bloggers. We were trying to use the PCC’s annual open review to suggest some useful changes. Of course, we got nowhere.
  9. Homeopathy Petition
    In February I set up a petition on the Number 10 web site calling for the government to take notice of the House of Commons Science and Technology committee’s evidence check on homeopathy. Unfortunately, all petitions were put on hold during the general election and the new government has closed the site down.
  10. General Election in Battersea
    I’m glad this post was popular. Whilst the election was going on, I was monitoring the way that my local candidates were using social media to get their message across. With a couple of exceptions, the results were not encouraging.

And there we are. That’s the ten most read articles from the site in 2010. As in previous years, I’m glad that it’s a pretty good cross-section of the things that I wrote about over the year.

Happy New Year everyone. Thanks for reading last year and I hope you continue to find something worth reading on the site this year.

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