Twelve video clips of the month, 2010

Regular readers will know that a recurring feature of this blog is the inclusion of video clips to illustrate the points discussed in different posts.

So here's one from each month of 2010 highlighting themes that seemed worth blogging about during the year:

January
Politician gives 5 straight answers to 5 consecutive questions

February
Nobel Prize for Economics (& Atkinson Award for Imagery): Joseph Stiglitz

March

Blair speaks and the BBC tells you what he said

April

More PowerPoint election news from the BBC

May

Hillary Clinton warns North Korea of 'consequences' (again)

June

Harriet Harman's reply to today's Budget: not bad, but still room for improvement

July

Bad manners from Blatter as he bags limelight to present the World Cup

August

70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain: speeches by Churchill & Roosevelt

September

Objects as visual aids: UK Speechwriters' Guild Conference, 2010

October

BIG SOCIETY: little applause

November

Was the royal engagement interviewer more nervous than his interviewees?

December

Child of Thatcher or son of Brown: the power of contrast strikes again