Sunday 24 December 2017

2017 – The Year in Blog Posts



Below are the most popular posts on this blog, as judged by unique page views, by month, for 2017. The blog is closing now until the new year.

Happy holiday to all our readers.

January


It doesn’t appear that any attempt was made by the police to arrest the people in the target car, before police opened fire…

February


Post-Brexit Britain risks ending up just a sad echo of the US, where many poor Americans voted in their millions for Donald Trump in the futile belief he would bring back long gone manufacturing jobs…

March


Repurposing what was once a beautiful stretch of land into a playground for the privileged is an environmental crime in its own right….

April


The 2016 Act criminalises the everyday lives of workers whose immigration status does not give them permission to work in the UK…

May


There are still three weeks to go until the election, so maybe the Tory vote can be eaten into…

June


This line has been very effective in the past in dismissing anyone who suggests there is indeed an alternative to the Tories austerity measures dating back to 2010, as a fantasist…

July


The organisers, The People's Assembly said a hundred thousand people came to demonstrate…

August


We still don’t know what kind of Brexit we will have, with different members of the Cabinet arguing over the form it should take…

September


Let us not forget, there was no great groundswell for a referendum on EU membership, but UKIP were picking up votes, mainly from Tory voters…

October


For someone who has been a politician for as long as May has, it is incredible how bad she is at politics…

November


This middle of the road response doesn’t appear to be holding though as tensions escalate and Catalonia moves towards a possible independence…

December


Why it took a year and a half to concede on these issues is hard to fathom, they could have been dealt with much earlier, especially as we ended up doing exactly what the EU wanted us to do…

2 comments:

  1. Many thanks for your tremendous work on this blog Mike. The readership has grown rapidly and it has become a vital tool in the promotion of ecososcialist ideas.

    Enjoy a well-deserved break.

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  2. Thanks Martin - praise indeed from a fellow blogger.

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