As 2021 closes these are some blog stats. These were blog reads:
I had massive traffic on Covid in 2020. That did not repeat, but the core readership was strong, and I am pleased about that.
There were about 1,130 posts (the year is not finished as yet), or about 3.1 a day, which is below the historical average.
Posting was below average in August and September. Otherwise, it was very consistent.
I do not have data on the number of comments in the year. It was many tens of thousands. Thank you.
I have no idea how much time this all took. I suspect I spend 3 or so hours a day on here. That may be 1,000 hours a year on top of what I call the day job, to which I offer full-time commitment.
And about £10,000 was donated, for which I am very grateful.
The work will continue in 2022. There is too much to do.
When I began this blog 15 years ago I had no idea that it would still be going now. But I am still curious, and I am still angry, so there is still much to write. In some small way I hope that doing so makes the world a better place. All I know is that writing this stuff helps me frame how I see things. And that's still why I do it. That others find that useful is a benefit. And I am grateful to all who say so, not least by discussing the issues so constructively in so many cases.
Let's hope for 2022, despite everything. Happy New Year
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Happy New year Richard and thank you and thanks too, to the other contributors that make this a safe sane space.
I read the guardian first and then call up your blog. Please keep going. I need help analysing things as they are shallowly revealed in the papers. I do not have a lot of hope for the new year but I will make my presence felt on the streets along with my much younger climate change activists despite the Police and crime bill and as soon as covid numbers permit! Happy New Year! We need rid of this incompetent government!
Good luck
Happy New Year Richard when it arrives. Thanks for the education.
Thank you, Richard, for another year of challenging the established narrative and, through your writings, encouraging others and giving them confidence to do the same. Here’s hoping that this is a process that sees exponential growth. Good wishes for 2022.
Thanks!
And to you
Challenging, thought provoking, controversial, illuminating, educational, sometimes downright cussed, but always a “must read”. Best wishes to you and your dearest for the New Year.
Thinks
Thank you for all your efforts in 2021, Richard.
Happy New Year to you and everyone else who reads/comments on this site.
Craig
All I know is that these are extraordinary times – they have been for me since 2008, which should have been the end of a certain type of capitalism.
But it didn’t turn out like that. Instead innocent people like me had to pay the price – for what exactly?
The existence of this blog testifies and validates that the economic and political system we exist in is essentially corrupt and not working properly.
This blog should not really have to exist. But it does. And if ‘they’ want it to stop, then they’d better improve their ideas and behaviour hadn’t they?
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year Richard
And thanks for clarifying so many points for me.
Keep up the good work.
Many thanks to you Richard and to the phalanx of serious commenters.
Best wishes for the coming year to you all, to this nation, and to all who care about a better world for humankind.
Have been reading quietly (from across the sea) for many years, tho’ I rarely comment. Thank you so much for the work you do here, Richard, and Happy New Year!
Thank you
Lang may yer lum reek Richard.
🙂
Happy New Year, Richard. Thanks for all the work you put in to keep this blog running. I first came across you when I was trying to work out what QE was and how it worked. I am dyslexic, quite a lot of mathematicians are, and find it easier to absorb material through videos than the written word, but, having watched several of your videos i thought it would be worth the effort of reading your blog. I’m really glad I did.
May you have the strength to carry on with your work, for all our sakes.
Thank you
And for your comments
Very grateful for your time and effort Richard. Keep on keeping on in 2022 and beyond.