Five Posts From Five Years At Five

Last week, the lovely Caron Lindsay came up with a meme – what were we blogging on about this date for each of the last five years? I’ve still had my horrible ear infection and not been blogging much but, having managed a monster Doctor Who review this morning, I’ve been nudged by Millennium to take a look through the back catalogue. It turns out I’ve never blogged on May 23rd before, but aiming for mid-May has reminded me of an exciting variety of old posts: Doctor Who; politics; politics; and Doctor Who (few of them short). Who’d have thought?

• 2011: The BBC were doing one of their rare repeats of old Doctor Who, this time in honour of the late Elisabeth Sladen. I reviewed Doctor Who – The Hand of Fear and took a look at the show’s greatest ever season…
  

• 2010: I was more horribly ill than usual that May and didn’t blog much past the first week; my nearest to mid-May was about the Coalition negotiations, but having written quite enough about that recently, I’m going back to Lib Dem Fair Taxes: The Reverse Poll Tax. It turns out that all the tax cuts for ordinary working people under the Coalition are thanks to the Lib Dems, and the Tories opposed them. Who knew?

• 2009: Remember the expenses scandal? Nick stood up to the establishment; too many of them got away with it; and I asked some awkward questions of our own MPs – which ones were taking the piss? Come to think of it, it might be worth asking the same questions at regular intervals. Here’s Parliament In Crisis: A Good Day For Nick, But A Lot More Questions To Come.

• 2008: Excited by a comedy historical episode with Agatha Christie and a giant wasp on the horizon, I took a look back through Doctor Who’s adventures in history, and particularly the fifth Doctor’s surprisingly clever little mystery Black Orchid. It’s Doctor Who and the ‘Celebrity Historical’.

• 2007: May of that year brought a tragic announcement… oh, who am I kidding? This one, of all the posts I’ve re-read this afternoon, still brought a smile to my face. All together now: Ding Dong! The Witch is dead!

Going back slightly further, 2006 was my first and in fact my most productive year blogging, so I took a look at that May, too: still nothing on the 23rd. But it turned out that we’d just had some local election results that had disappointed many Liberal Democrats (ha bloody ha, comparing the figures) but where Labour were relying on nothing but hatred of the Tories; that the Green Party were looking to nick votes from us; that Lib Dems were in fact much better on green action than they were; and that I was making a suggestion for how to get across, in part, what the Lib Dems stand for. How strange and long ago that all seems.