{"id":88347,"date":"2025-12-12T07:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88347"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:12:22","slug":"my-best-of-the-year-in-the-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/12\/my-best-of-the-year-in-the-national\/","title":{"rendered":"My best of the year, in the National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if to prove that everyone in the media spends half their lives looking at data, The National sent me a summary of my most-read articles of the year in that paper yesterday. They were:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33-550x314.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33-550x314.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33-525x300.png 525w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33-1536x878.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33-600x343.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-11-at-20.23.33.png 1596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/author\/profile\/79950.Professor_Richard_Murphy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can find them all here<\/a>, but a sub may be required.<\/p>\n<p>And with a bit of luck, our best of the year on this blog will be out as a combined volume download by Saturday, with more than 50,000 words to get you through to Christmas, by when our MMT guide may also be out to cover that post-festivities lull.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if to prove that everyone in the media spends half their lives looking at data, The National sent me a summary of my most-read<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/12\/my-best-of-the-year-in-the-national\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,140,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-scotland","category-the-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88355,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88347\/revisions\/88355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}