Video clips of the month, 2011

Regular readers will know that this blog often includes video clips to illustrate points discussed in different posts.

So, as on this day last year, here's one from each month of the year highlighting themes that seemed worth blogging about:

January

50 years since John F Kennedy asked not ...

February

More 3-part lists and a touch of management speak from Obama on Egypt

March

Memorable speeches in Berlin revisited

April

'Inward cutter' in the Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter sermon

May

President Obama's speech at Westminster awarded a B-

June

How many numbers can you get into 20 seconds? Balls v. Brown

July

James Murdoch backs Rebekah Brooks, but not without pausing every 2 seconds

August

Yvette Cooper's precisely timed response to a contrast from Ed Miliband

September

Politicians and broadcasters in the UK: collaboration or capitulation?

October

Osborne finds the Tories more enthusiastic about the coalition than a year ago

November

Murdoch, the Mafia and the manufacture of a misleading soundbite

December

More gobbledygook from the Archbishop of Canterbury