2025 Year In Review
My most popular posts of 2025 vs my favourite posts of 2025. Plus a special discount offer.
As has become an annual tradition, here’s a month-by-month breakdown of my most popular posts from each month of 2025, along with my personal favourite (these rarely overlap). Every single one of these posts in the list below is now out from behind the paywall (if you find one that isn’t, let me know). Enjoy!
(And, of course, if you ever want to become a paid subscriber, you can access my zillions of other posts, too. There’s a special limited-time ‘Welcome to 2026, 26% off offer’ link below. Or, y’know, just wait until the same time next year, when I might release a couple dozen more of my favourite posts from behind the paywall. Your call.)
(Apologies to my non-cricket subscribers. A lot of these are cricket-related. But some of them aren’t, so you’re getting this email too. Just ignore the cricket ones.)
January, 2025
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The final day of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy!
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I started doing weekly(ish) recaps of old comic books, eventually settling down to make it a Wednesday(ish) thing. Here’s where I began my coverage of the Justice League of America - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Captain Fish-head, in their very first adventure together, fighting a giant telepathic alien starfish.
February, 2025
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Easily the most popular post of February - and by far the nerdiest - was my ranking of possible permutations of group stage outcomes in cricket World Cups. Why? I don’t know. If I knew what people liked to read, I’d write that kind of stuff all the time.
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February also saw the first episode of the podcast Lost Within Lost, in which my friend Chris and I counted down the ten highest ranked episodes of the television show Lost, and discussed them, along with our top ten lists, which, in my case, did not include The Constant. Conveniently, the first episode of the countdown (the tenth best episode) is also the first episode of the television show. Neat.
March, 2025
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It’s the Champions Trophy Final between India and New Zealand. Were India fans disappointed by my half-hearted coverage of the match? Almost certainly. But, hey, it’s the Champions Trophy. What do you expect?
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Okay. Some of the Lost Within Lost listeners had dropped off by this point, perhaps thrown off by the Lost-nerd depth in which we were delving into some of these episodes. But, hey, the Season 3 finale, Through The Looking Glass, is a contender for one of my favourite television episodes of all time. So, yeah, we talked about it for almost three (3) hours. If that’s not for you, fair enough. But if it is, have a listen.
April, 2025
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Another deeply, deeply nerdy post, in which I discussed the dimensionality of cricket (in a mathematical sense). And yet, like the group stage stuff in February, it, too, was easily the most popular post of the month. Maybe there’s a lesson here.
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Throughout a good chunk of February, March and April, I’d also been covering Australian Survivor, as is my wont. We’ll call this one my favourite, because when Myles won the season (uh, spoiler), I won a Survivor buff.
May, 2025
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By May, cricket readers of the site were clearly hungry for some cricket action. And England cricket supplied, with cricket against a Zimbabwe cricket team.
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Easily my favourite post of the month was my (belated) breakdown of the teaser trailer for the at-the-time upcoming Superman movie. Yes!
June, 2025
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Glenn Maxwell announced his retirement from ODI cricket. So I wrote this piece about him and ‘Maxwellball’. Loads of people read it.
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Honestly, it’s probably the Maxwellball piece. But this recap of the greatest Superman comic book of all time is a close second.
July, 2025
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One of my rare crossover pieces which, theoretically, runs the risk of appealing to neither cricket fans nor comic book ones. Yet somehow appealed to both.
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This one’s silly and perhaps slightly niche. But it’s a reimagined discussion of some plotting confusion in the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, and I think it’s funny.
August, 2025
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Back on the Australian Survivor train, with the much anticipated Australia v The World season. How anticipated? Anticipated enough that my pre-season guide to the Australian players was my most popular post of the month.
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Oh, let’s say this first instalment of a new chapter of the Confabulannotated Sherlock Holmes. They really are a lot of fun for me to write even if disappointingly few of you read them. (A reminder for those who came in late that you don’t need to have any interest or knowledge of Sherlock Holmes to enjoy the fake footnotes I adorn to this story. In fact, it probably helps. Start here, then go backwards (or forwards!) if it pleases you.)
September, 2025
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Ashes fever began to rear its feverish Ashes head, in the feverish form of an England Ashes squad. Was it as interesting as it could be? No. So I fixed tht.
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Probably this crossover post.
October, 2025
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Hey! The book I co-wrote with Alex Bowden, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, came out. You can still buy that, BTW! Anyway, as part of the publicity push for that, we both wrote bonus chapters for the book. Here’s mine.
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For no immediately obvious reason, I pivoted from the Justice League of America recaps to the X-Men for my Weekly Wednesday comics post. Here’s the first such instalment.
November, 2025
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Oh, bloody hell. The Ashes are here. And leading the charge, clickthrough-wise, is the character find of November, 2025 - the anonymous (and obnoxious) former Australian Test cricketer.
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Completely unrelated to all the Ashes nonsense was this one-off sketch. It amused me.
December, 2025
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Yep. More from that anonymous former Australian Test cricketer.
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Another one-off, non-Ashes sketch. Once again, I was amused by it.
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