Student protests, political songs, the Taliban and Carol Vorderman. That’s what you were reading about in 2010, according to our list of the 20 most-read articles and blogs. Why not let us know your favourites below?
1. Preview: NS Interview with Gore Vidal by Daniel Trilling
2. Inside the Whitehall kettle by Laurie Penny
3. Exclusive: Ted Hughes’s poem on the night Sylvia Plath died by Daniel Trilling
4. 20 new ideas in science by Michael Brooks
5. Return of the natives by Slavoj Žižek
6. Top 20 Political Songs by Ian K Smith and Jennifer Thompson
7. Christopher Hitchens v Tony Blair: the full transcript by Jon Bernstein
8. The economist manifesto by Amartya Sen
9. The ghastliness of Carol Vorderman by James Macintyre
10. Inside the Parliament Square kettle by Laurie Penny
11. 50 People Who Matter 2010
12. Inside the Milbank Tower riots by Laurie Penny
13. Gilbey on Film: casting Kurt Cobain by Ryan Gilbey
14. The party game is over. Stand and fight by John Pilger
15. Why the Taliban are winning in Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
16. Beware those Black Swans by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
17. The danger of Sarah Palin by Andrew Stephen
18. The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky by Alyssa McDonald
20. Young and wasted by Francis Beckett