The Metropolis

The twenty most viewed posts from 2011

Darren Atwater | Tuesday 3 January, 2012 08:51

Thank god for top 20 lists. They give the illusion of new content and can easily be generated before nipping back into the bottom of the Gingerbread Bailey’s.

What do Snipe readers care about? The riots, transportation, running for mayor, and watching Camilla be dissed, apparently.

The top twenty by page views (low to high).

1. Labour rebel faces Lambeth axe for cuts protest
2. Thames Cable Car delayed following crash fears
3. Lewisham Council pushes through library closures
4. Friend Crush by Friends
5. Walthamstow cinema fans see off church plans – for now
6. For sale: One disused Tube station, slightly soiled
7. London’s underground entrepreneur strikes again
8. Five filthy, dirty, obscenely sexual poems from the past
9. Five great London journeys into the sunset
10. 10 things I learned at the opera, by a first time opera goer
11. The revolution will be tweeted, because Tottenham sure wasn’t televised
12. Lembit Opik limps out of Mayoral race
13. Five ways you shouldn’t respond to the looting
14. Republican ‘Not the Royal Wedding’ street party banned by Camden Council
15. 2011’s big news stories that already bore us to tears
16. Londoners hit by secret mid-year fare rises
17. Boris Johnson’s staged rows with government exposed
18. TfL to be renamed Barclays London Transport
19. Talk of ‘rioters attacking their own communities’ misses the point
20. Did the Queen diss Camilla in front of two billion viewers? [Video]

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