Below are the ten most-viewed posts for the period 1 April 2026 to 30 June 2026 [1]. Over this three-month period, there were 67,701 page reads in total, fewer than in Q1 2026 for which there were 73,245. The “top ten” posts of Q2 constituted 15.1% of the total [2].

* Guest posts.

Comment

The following observations may be made on the above posts which are listed in descending order of number of page-views:

• Our very first post in 2012 addressed the successful challenge of the National Secular Society, (NSS), and the late Mr Clive Bone, a former Bideford town councillor, to the inclusion of ‘Prayers’ as the first substantive item of business at full meetings of the Council. The opinions of Local Authorities to “Council Prayers” have changed since events at Bideford, and last year the NSS observed that Reform councillors imposed prayers on Derbyshire County Council after the party had taken control of the Council.
• Posts on Parochial fees often feature in these listings, and their publication by the Church of England each December results reflects searches for previous fees as well as newly announced ones, hence the interest in the post with information on 2025 and 2026 fees.
• The two posts on CDM proceedings concerned considerations of before the Bishop’s Disciplinary Tribunal for the Diocese of Derby, in which it “found the Respondent’s behaviour (of non-participation) to be puzzling and in the face of many opportunities to act otherwise, to have been disappointing in one tasked with important duties in her role“.
• Further to the update on the Thomas Corker Memorial, this was considered by Truro Diocesan Synod on 9 June, here, and reported by local media.
• As in the Q1 analysis, Guest posts featured in the “top ten”; possibly an encouragement to others to submit articles?

[1]  i.e. those other than “Archives” and “Index”. However, for the present analysis, these categories did not fall within the “top 10”.

[2] For comparison, there were 20% for January to April in 2025 and ~12% for posts from 1 August 2024 to 4 July 2025.

Updated: 29 June 2026 at 08:46.