Most popular posts @ B4L - 2 comments

Here's a list of the 20 most popular posts (hits appear in brackets) that have been posted at B4L over the (gasp) two years and ten days. As you can probably guess from the top post, these are not necessarily my 20 favourites, nor the 20 best - I blame the general public entirely:

1. fish-girl - the sensational tale of the girl who allegedly kicked a Koran and turned into what can best be described as an obviously bogus, plastic lump, vaguely resembling a discarded Doctor Who sea monster suit stolen from a dumpster behind BBC Television Centre. Depressingly, relentlessly popular (1159)
2. immigration-amnesty - economic reasons for a full immigration amnesty, and why I couldn't go quite that far... (684)
3. british-empire - is a picture of whipped slaves an accurate, and/or constructive introduction to the British Empire? (507)
4. labour-home - my rather graceless welcome to LabourHome (319)
5. making-labour-our-party - I plug the LabOUR Commission (295)
6. meeting-in-manchester - I announce our 2006 Conference meetup (294)
7. labour-blogs - I plug Labour's new blogs page. Incidentally, this was almost exactly a year ago. We had 160 blogs then, 408 now (280)
8. labour-home-ii - a more comradely introduction to LabourHome. So why don't we work together? (262)
9. road-pricing-and-stealth-taxes - I aim to justify the principle of road pricing - something the roads lobby is loath to engage with - and to show that not only need the cost of motoring not rise, but that it couldn't be less like a stealth tax (240)
10. compass - my first comment on the Compass group. Once upon a time I felt that might be my natural home on the Labour spectrum (so to speak). I can't help feeling now that it's almost the opposite of where I am, if you can believe that (226)
11. euston-enemy - my first, rather bad-tempered, response to speculation about the Euston Manifesto Group. Actually the follow-up was even more forthright, and produced a record number of comments (206)
12. party-funding - why capping donations ignores political influence (205)
13. blairwatch - I used the f*** word for the first and only time in a post here, but it actually contains a pretty good defence of the autonomy of party-political bloggers (202)
14. sea-of-trivia - covering the media's obsession with Blair's date of departure (191)
15. top-political-blogs - my response to Iain Dale's selection of top political blogs (185)
16. new-blogs - a round-up of new blogs, up to April 2006 (182)
17. guest-post-1-jo-salmon - our first guest post. Jo talks about teenage pregnancy (179)
18. new-bloggers - a round-up of new blogs, from April-July 2006 (178)
19. invalidity-benefit - I tried to challenge the idea that the kindest policy was to allow disabled people to live on benefit without being helped/encouraged into the workplace. That was the plan... (162)
20. bloggers4labour-summer-essays-4 - James Hamilton's marvellous contributed essay, What's Left? (158)

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