Blog Traffic Statistics & Tulip Siddiq

Last month was a record million visitors to this chronicle. What's most interesting is that very little of that traffic comes from the UK and it's not my new posts that are read by many. It's all those years of conspiracy research sucking in the attention. Brazil is the top source, and so it follows the great awakening is most sanguine over there. What tickles me is unusual places like Bangladesh provided over 35K visitors, and so my appeal to them is this. Tulip Siddiq, sitting UK Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate and former Treasury minister, faces arrest warrants and in-absentia convictions in Bangladesh on corruption charges.

A Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant for her in April 2025 as part of investigations into land allocation during her aunt Sheikh Hasina’s premiership. She was tried in absentia and sentenced on 1 December 2025 to two years in prison plus a 100,000 taka fine in one case involving alleged influence over state land plots for family members. Bangladeshi courts have since imposed further sentences, bringing the total to six years across three separate corruption cases. In February 2026 a court ordered authorities to request an Interpol red notice for her arrest.

 

What can I do to facilitate Tulip's repatriation to Bangladesh? We live in a golden age of corruption and a lot of criminal Bangladeshi money is in the UK.

 

Calling All Graphic Designers

I've been getting restless with my blog design for some months now. It's always been a bit of a sandbox, meaning I like to experiment with new stuff, and I intend to add new widgets as and when I think they could be interesting. There's a kind of colour code. The background is black, the type is greyish and I use a bit of green to highlight some bits and pieces but that only really matters when I play with the colour palette on the widgets. But I'm bored of the look now and was intending to give it a facelift.

However it strikes me that there are much better designers out there than I, and I'd like to give you the chance to redesign it. The deal is that in return for making this blog look ship shape, maybe even tasteful, you (the designer) get to have your creds on it day in and day out and a link to your website. I'm not expecting an avalanch of people to get in touch, but if there's only one, then we probably need to have have some to and fro about details, in case say the widgets need new colours, but if there's a few of you interested in having a crack at it, then it's a straight forward pitch.

Does that sound fair?

If not the comments are always a good place to chip in on how we could do it. Now that I've put my neck out, I expect a resounding silence to ensue and a few hours of tinkering with Blogger templates on my own. I'd be well chuffed if someone could inject some style and substance into the design. The best idea I've seen recently is Peggy's blog which doesn't even have a title. I like that mininimal approach, plus I don't think anyone else has done it. Anyway, there are no restrictions. Everything can go if it's for the right reason. It would also be a pretty good showcase for the winners talents.

That's all I can guarantee.