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

If you carry a Firearm the Police will Assassinate You, it Seems

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

Stop Trump - One Day Without Us Immigrants - London Protest - Photos and Report

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

Eco-activists Vandalise a Trump Golf Course

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

April

Welcome to Britain in 2017, where everybody is expected to be a border guard

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

May

Labour’s 31% UK General Election Strategy seems to be Paying Off

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

June

There is a Magic Money Tree - It is called Fair Taxation

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

Not One Day More Protest - London - Photos and Videos

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

August

Should we hold a Second EU Referendum?

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

The Tories are Ruining this Country but they Just Don’t Care

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

Theresa May is the most Incompetent Prime Minister of my Lifetime

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

November

Split opens up in Podemos over Catalonia Crisis

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

December

After the Phase 1 Hype it’s back to Brexit Delusions

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…