Here are the five posts published on this blog between January and March 2013 that recorded the most hits:

1. Help to buy? (20^th March)
2. The politics of the bedroom tax (9^th February)
3. Clegg courts catastrophe (10^th March)
4. Research and the policy process (13^th February)
5. The boundaries of academic blogging (20^th January)

This quarter has seen 3 of the 4 busiest months since the blog started. I’m glad that people are continuing to find these ramblings of some interest. Onward and upward!

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me.

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Here are the five posts published on this blog between October and December 2012 that recorded the most hits:

1. The maths question in economics (24^th October)
2. Not so Marr-vellous (4^th November)
3. The reopening of the economic mind? (26^th November)
4. Policy challenges around welfare reform (13^th November)
5. Osbo’s poverty trap and pinging the elastic of reality (16^th December)

All these posts appear in the list of my top ten posts of 2012, published yesterday. That’s one indication that this has been a good quarter for the blog. Onward and upward!

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me.

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This has been quite a good year for this blog. I could never claim my ramblings have mass appeal, but traffic in 2012 has been nearly double that in 2011. This year’s top post recorded twice the hits received by last year’s top post. Half of this year’s top ten posts are from the last quarter of the year. So I’m hoping this is a trend rather than an aberration.

The blog got into the ebuzzing politics top 100 for the first time in June. It has been in the lower reaches of the top 100 for five of the last seven months. Such rankings shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but I’d rather be in the top 100 than outside it.

Thanks for reading over the year. And thanks if you also took time to comment. Sometimes responding to comments is as helpful in clarifying thinking as writing the original post.

Here are the ten posts which recorded the most hits this year: Continue Reading →

Here are the five posts published on this blog between July and September that recorded the most hits:

1. Expensive homes for wealthy people (23rd August)
2. There’s money to be made from “responsibilizing” the poor (17th September)
3. Housing and the economy (12th September)
4. Housing transformations and trajectories: My contribution to #SLFconf (15th July)
5. Is stronger regulation of private renting only a matter of time (21st July)

This has been another busy quarter for the blog. I’ve been in and out of the ebuzzing politics top 100. I may well be back in again next month.

One curiosity is that the two most popular posts of the quarter were both written very quickly because I was annoyed about the issue. Maybe there’s a lesson there somewhere.

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Here are the five posts published on this blog between April and June that recorded the most hits:

1. Jeremy Hunt and the limits of credulity (1st May)
2. Economists? That’ll be your problem right there (10th June)
3. Grasping the big picture on housing (21st April)
4. Why an Elected Mayor is a bad idea (2nd May)
5. Beds, sheds, and regs (13th May)

This has been a busy quarter for the blog. May was the highest traffic month so far, and the blog reached the ebuzzing June top 100 for politics (although it is going to drop out again in July). June ended with an automatic upgrade of my theme causing a major software glitch. I had to reinstall the theme so I’ve taken the opportunity to give the blog a new look. Hope you like it.

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me.

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Here are the five posts published on this blog between January and March that recorded the most hits:

1. Last desperate throw of the dice? (11^th March)
2. … but words can never hurt me (20^th January)
3. Libdem futures – Implosion or renewal? (15^th March)
4. An Elected Mayor for Bristol? (23^rd February)
5. Is Liberal Left ludicrous? (8^th February)

“Last desperate throw …”, about the NHS votes at the Libdem Spring Conference, turned out to be the most popular post so far published on this blog, by a very large margin. March has been the busiest month so far on the blog.

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me.

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Here are the five posts published on this blog between October and December that recorded the most hits:

1. Keen insight into the monetary economy (15^th November)
2. Shifting underoccupiers (26^th October)
3. Liberal Democrat rebranding (27^th November)
4. Chaos in all directions (22^nd December)
5. On economic amnesia (12^th October)

“Keen insight …” turned out to be the most popular post so far published on this blog. And the first three of these posts made it into the top 10 of the year.

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me.

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Here are the five posts published on this blog between July and September that recorded the most hits:

1. Dispatching rogue landlords (4 July)
2. Crunch time for the Liberal Democrats – The NHS Bill and electoral oblivion (5 September)
3. Could the riots be the beginning of the end for the Coalition?  (19 August)
4. Policy, evidence and dogma – the homelessness episode (3 July)
5. The Work Programme isn’t working – and that raises bigger issues (2 September)

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me

Here are the five posts published on this blog between April and June that recorded the most hits:

1. Taxpayers and ‘the right to the city’:  alternative narratives on cuts to Housing Benefit (25 April)
2. Groundbreaking economic finding during higher education policy development? (4 April)
3. Up to the task? Dealing with housing market volatility  (17 May)
4. Think tanks and the policy process: right, wrong and possibly both at the same time (3 May)
5. Harsh but fair? Marquand on the Liberal Democrat leadership (14 May)

Thanks for reading. And commenting. Even when you’re disagreeing with me