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Link: Blogpower: Call for Nominations for Best Blog Post of 2007 by BP members.

TrophyJMB over at Nobody Important is organising a round up of the best Blogpower posts of 2007. If you are a Blogpower member, head over to the linked post to get the details. I have spent a little time this morning running through my posts last year to see if I have one I can modestly submit. So far, these are the candidates (in no particular order):

Questions of conscience (why forcing religious adoption agencies to cater to gays is wrong)

Social Justice -v- Justice (why it is wrong to apply social criteria to educational selection)

How English am I? (a reflection on Matt Sinclair’s thoughtful criticisms of one of my posts)

What can we hope to achieve? (the concluding part of a three-part post entitled "What is the point of blogging?")

Show of Hands at the Royal Albert Hall (a controversial review of a folk concert’s audience)

Edukashun, Edookayshen, Education (a comment on the grammar school controversy)

Ban Koran like Mein Kampf, says Dutch MP (a piece about freedom of speech)

We pay to have an underclass (comments from life on the effects of "social policy")

"Fear of prejudice" let gay carers abuse boys (the new British aristocrats of Labour’s client groups)

The Jean Charles memorial blog round up (the Menezes story, as seen by other bloggers)

Any views?

4 responses to “Best Blogpower Blog Post of 2007”

  1. Dave Petterson Avatar
    Dave Petterson

    Tom,
    I’d go for the ‘Fear of prejudice” let gay carers abuse boys’
    Followed by ‘We pay to have an underclass’
    Good luck.

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  2. delicolor Avatar

    When I looked at your list, the Show of Hands one resonated the most. I (sort of) saw them recently, minus Steve Knightley.
    I waded through my list looking for the ones with the most comments, but the postings themselves were banal.
    In the end, I chose one where someone had asked me for a photo from and turned that event into a blogpost anyway.

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  3. jmb Avatar

    That’s great that you have so many to choose from Tom. Don’t you secretly favour one more than the others?

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  4. jameshigham Avatar

    They all seem good.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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