'January, February, I don't understand . . . ' *

This should have been the first post on the blog for 2026. It wasn't. Life intervened.

Briefly looking back on the figures for the blog in 2025, the plus point is that there were more posts on the blog in 2025 in comparison to the previous year (1543 to 1359). The minus point is that it's still not enough. The completion of the digitisation of the Socialist Standard is still behind schedule. Hopefully, we can break the back of it in 2026.

Listed below are the 21 most popular posts on the blog for 2025. Yes, 21 rather than 20. For some reason there was a glitch in the stats and the  "In the year 2025, if man is still alive . . . "  post wasn't showing up, despite the fact that I knew it was one of the most popular posts on the blog in 2025. So, I inserted it in anyway in its correct spot. If you want to compare the 2025 End of the Year stats with previous years posted, feel free to click on the link.

21. Death of a Clown (1949)

20. No let up (2025)

19. Obituary: Richard Headicar (2025)

18. Farage — opportunist supreme (2025)

17. Running Commentary: Catch ’em young (1986)

16. Marx: a critical view by Brian Crozier (1983)

15. Karl Marx and the abolition of money (1980)

14. British fascists online (2022)

13. 'It's Clichéd to Be Cynical at Christmas* . . .'

12. Unwillingly to school (1950)

11. George Orwell, Spain and anti-fascism (1997)

10. Letter: Vodka-Cola (1980)

9. What price energy? (1986)

8. Papal bull (1979)

7. The Menace of Aerial Warfare - Part 3 (1936)

6. Standard Leeds OK (1979)

5. "In the year 2025, if man is still alive . . . "

4. A Page of History: the 1834 Canut Revolt in Lyon (2015)

3. How we live and how we might live - Part 8 (2025)

2. The ghost of Christmas yet to come (1995)

1. Book Review: The End of the Megamachine. A Brief History Of A Failing Civilization by Fabian Scheidler (2020)

 

 

*With apologies to Ms. Barbara Dickson