A year ago, my articles had been read by about one and a half million people. It had taken about eight years to reach that figure. I had around 10,000 followers on Twitter and every now and again I wrote something that caught the mood and was read quite widely, but this was rare. Last January I had 28,000 readers. Last February I had 50,000, then things began to take off. Last year I had 2.1 Million readers.
2020 has been a tough year for many people. The long-term economic damage caused by Covid will have an effect on me just like everyone else. But I have been fortunate. I have worked from home since the crisis began. I have not caught Covid and I have saved two hours every day which I used to spend sitting on a bus. Those two hours a day I have used for writing.
Where previously I would write something from scratch every Saturday morning, for the past few months I have been able to write as often as I want. When I wake up and read the papers, if I see something that looks promising, I just write about it. Instead of writing once a week I have been writing every two or three days. Here are my ten most read articles from last year.
1. I doubt I will ever again have another article like Journalism is missing the mood of the country. It ended up being read by 529,000 people. I wrote it in about an hour and didn’t think it would be more successful than any other article. But everything changed after that. I gained followers. My ranking on Google improved. My ads were worth more.
2. The EU and the Scottish Government just became irrelevant was read by 66,000 people. The fundamental point that is lost on both Scottish nationalists and Remainers is that it was the British Government that bailed us out last year, no one else. The SNP argument is therefore thin, mere spin and contrary to reality.
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(4) As Brexit dawned never has BBC been so scornfully out of step with Britain
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