Five Most Popular Posts in April

That's the fourth month of 2025 done. Doesn't time fly when you're enjoying yourself? As per tradition, here are the top five by audience numbers.

1. Whingeing and Hand Wringing
2. The Lure of the Racist Self-Own
3. Communing with Dead Voters
4. Hard Talk from the Soft Left
5. The Class Politics of Trump's Tariffs

I wanted to bump up the blog posts this month, but ironically life, the universe, and cats conspired to keep the tally down. Next month hopefully! But what did well? At the top was a quick look at "Raf" Behr and his droning whinge about how nasty and hopeless Keir Starmer is. I would like to enjoy some schadenfreude at his expense, but unfortunately he and his privileged media ilk aren't going to suffer as a consequence of Labour's policies. In at second is the non sequitur that is 'Labour strategy', and why using the state for racist scapegoating is tempting for right wing middle class politicians, like Yvette Cooper, but is electorally self-defeating. Parking itself at three are the dead voters who live an active afterlife in the big strategy brains of the two main parties. Coming in at four are the recent criticisms of the government uttered by the soft left. And last is an effort at making sense of the seeming insanity of Donald Trump and his dysfunctional economics.

The second plug award this month is conferred on Data as Bourgeois Morality.

As previously said, I'd like to start ramping up posting again to a respectable level. Allowing for life and my evil feline (I'm convinced she's a reactionary conspiracy to stop my writing), there will be a lot more to look back on at the end of May. Takes on the May elections, Labour and Tory shenanigans, and the typical stupidities of politics are sure to provide plenty of material. I'll get round to penning something on a science fiction novel or two too! As ever, if you haven't already don't forget to follow the (very) occasional newsletter, and if you like what I do (and you're not skint), you can help support the blog. Following me on Bluesky, Facebook, and for what it's worth, Twitter, are cost-free ways of showing your backing for this corner of the internet.

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