Five Most Popular Posts in June

Another scorching month! For the blog that is. June was kind to this corner of the internet, and not all the traffic was from LLMs hungry for new content to "train" on. Here are the favourite five. 1. Authoritarian Babyism 2. A See Ya to Keir 3. Labour after Makerfield 4. On Cowardice 5. Right Riot Coming out on top is the government's plans to curb social media use for teenagers. Typical authoritarianism from the most authoritarian and, as it turns out, brittle Prime Minister ever. Speaking of which, in at two is Keir Starmer's resignation timetable. I suspect most readers will not be sorry to see him go. Coming in at three is a post superseded by events, a what now? after Andy Burnham's by-election victory. At four and five respectively are interlinked posts. The first is on Labour's pathetic response to the far right and loyalist riots/pogroms in Southampton and Belfast and the second on the extremist efforts, which include that nice Mr Farage, in stirring something up. Who gets…