At the end of 2024, we posted 2024 – The year in straplines a glossary which reviewed the various straplines taken from the weekly posts in 2024, providing a week-on-week snapshot of events throughout the year. During the year there have been 175,353 page-reads, an increase of 14.75% on 2023; the total posts since we started in 2012 (i.e. the “All Time” posts) have now reached 2,852,920.

As indicated, the statistics generated by WordPress provide an analysis of access of posts over a number of time periods – 7 days; 30 days; quarterly; annually; and “All Time” (i.e. since Frank’s first post in February 2012).

The “top ten” named posts for each of these time periods are listed here, and those for the  365 days ending 1 January 2025 are reproduced below, in decreasing order of number of page reads.

Comment

Just as events surrounding COVID-19 skewed our “normal” sequence of reporting on L&RUK, so the publication of the Makin Report and its aftermath had an immediate and disproportionate impact effect on our posts. In the weekly round-up on 17 November – “A week dominated by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s announcement of his intended resignation…” we noted that the blog had had over 10,600 page views. Furthermore, the annual statistics were headed by posts which had been issued late into the reporting period, (i.e. 7 & 13 November). Furthermore, reports on this blog were restricted to solely “law and religion” issues and did not extend to the extensive discussion on social media and elsewhere.