In September we'll be publishing the 2008-9 Guide to Political Blogging, this time through TOTAL POLITICS, and again sponsored by those nice people at APCO WORLDWIDE. The directory will be based on the online version, which you can find HERE.
In order to make the voting as accurate as possible I am keen to ensure that the directory includes as many blogs as possible in the various categories. If you have a blog which is not listed in the categories below, can you leave the details in the comments, along with the blog domain name.
Conservative Blogs
Labour Blogs
LibDem Blogs
Right of Centre Blogs
Left of Centre Blogs
Parliamentarians
Journalist Blogs
Welsh Based Blogs
Scottish Based Blogs
Northern Irish Blogs
To see all the categories and countries click HERE.
Conservative/Centre-right Blog:
ReplyDeletewww.benjamin-gray.com
I've got a new blog :-)
ReplyDeleteI suppose you'd call it right-of-centre, if anything. It's called [sic] and the address is currently http://sic.phantom-rouge.co.uk
Cheers!
a pint of unionist lite
ReplyDeletehttp://unionistlite.blogspot.com/
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness
http://threethousandversts.blogspot.com/
Modern Unionist Voice
http://www.moderateunionistvoice.blogspot.com/
all Northern Ireland
No English blogs, I see.
ReplyDeleteIs it worth having a specific (prospective) candidates' blogs section? BTW, I am not a candidate, prospective or otherwise, so have no vested interest.
ReplyDeleteReligious / Right of Centre
ReplyDeletehttp://www.peter-ould.net
An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy
English blogs?
ReplyDeleteI believe there is a green blog section too...
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. I should point out on the Welsh front that State of the Union and Cyflwr yr Undeb have already been shelved. There are also a few Welsh blogs on the list that have not been updated at all this year (GWE, Seneddwr and View from the Glen)
ReplyDeleteExcellent, thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteYou missed newmania - he's back.
And Lord Hanningfield's blog is malfunctioning, it won't accept comments, though you can't tell him because....
Lib Dem blog:
ReplyDeleteA Lanson Boy
http://lansonboy.blogspot.com
No Libertarian blogs either.
ReplyDeletePJC Journal is NOT a Tory Blog, its a Libertarian one.
Would appreciate being moved from Tory to Libertarian.
many thanks
If you are out there, Lord Hanningfield, I wanted to post a moan about a horsechestnut wood with trees planted a foot apart, but I can't because your comments function isn't working.
ReplyDeleteMine is missing, and might be worth including:
ReplyDeletehttp://wwwjohn-m-ward.blogspot.com/
Category: Conservative.
What! No "Gordon Brown" category? Definitely a major omission Iain. He offers such a rich variety of blogging categories..... pathos,wonk, clinical psychology, lists (vs policy), sad old git, doom, failure, catastrophe, detached (from reality) etc etc
ReplyDeleteI suppose mine would be right-of-centre, too: http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
ReplyDeletehttp://secretperson.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteEnglish and Right of Centre.
But I'm in the Witanagemot club if you are going to stick all those in?
Typical racist anti-English Iain Campbell McDale - Scottish blogs, Welsh blogs but no English blogs.
ReplyDeleteWon't someone think of England?
ENGLISH PARLIAMENT NOW!!!!!
A couple of Tory and Scottish ones:
ReplyDeletehttp://scottishtoryboy.blogspot.com/
http://cameronrose.blogspot.com
marksany.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI'm a right of centre/libertarian blogger.
Prat. If you actually bothered to click on the link you numpty you'd find 1100 English based blogs. Seeing as I am a vocal proponent of an English Parliament you really are a prize idiot.
ReplyDeleteA Scottish Conservative with a hint of nationalism, was in your book about political blogging listed under Scottish blogs.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.microshaft.co.uk/
http://malcintheburgh.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteNat-view (but not necessarily always partisan) of Scottish politics with occasional glances to the US election.
Enjoy the blog Iain, cheers.
Malc
If you create a Libertarian category then please add Womble On Tour http://www.wombleontour.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeletefailing that call it a Right oF Centre blog.
Thanks.
John M Ward said...
ReplyDelete"Mine is missing,..."
Maybe for a very good reason.
I think of NotaSheep as a "Right of Centre" blog rather than a "Conservative" blog; but what do I know?
ReplyDeleteJournalist blog:
ReplyDeleteSky News Sunrise
http://blogs.news.sky.com/sunrise
capitalisits@work
ReplyDeleteaka cityunslicker in the business section please.
ta very much.
Scottish politics from a Westminster and Holyrood perspective
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/kevinschofield/
http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/magnusgardham/
UKIP video blog:
ReplyDeletewww.ukip.tv
http://www.blearswatch.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteIain, I don't know whether you'd class mine as an attack blog or a right of centre one. It's more the former than the latter, I'll admit. But I'll leave it up to you to decide where (if at all) to put it.
Thanks for the Conservative blog. It would be great if you could also add mine to the councillor list:-
ReplyDeletehttp://paulscully.blogspot.com
(It's written in my role as Leader of the Opposition, London Borough of Sutton.)
Iain,
ReplyDeleteBlog categories that The Kitchen is not in but probably should be are:
PARTY
Right Wing
CATEGORIES
Attack Blog (possibly)
Oh, and I notice that I am in EUsceptic twice...
DK
Iain, could you amend the title of my Lib Dem blog www.localfocus.blogspot.com?
ReplyDeleteInstead of
Focus on Sodbury,, Yate & Dodingt
it should read
Focus on Sodbury,Yate & Dodington
Same number of characters.
thanks,
Paul
Click the link, dear boy? Why would I do that when I have people to do it for me?
ReplyDeleteI'm destined for great things, you know!
I only started it a month ago so do not know if it qualifies.
ReplyDeleteConservative/Centre Right
http://unarmedaccountant.blogspot.com/
Left-of-Centre blog: Scribo Ergo Sum, http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/
ReplyDeleteOne for Scottish based blogs.
ReplyDeletewww.cybernat.blogspot.com
Interesting videos of the front runner to be Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray.
Maybe he should seek advice from John Mason, the SNP candidate in the Glasgow East by-election, who was very good on Newsnight Scotland tonight in a one 2 one interview with Glenn Campbell.
He's a tricky one that Campbell.
www.confusedconservative.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteConservative/Centre-right Blog
2 more UKIP blogs:
ReplyDeletehttp://greggbeaman.blogspot.com
http://steveallison107.blogspot.com/
And 1 Libertarian?
http://nannyknowsbest.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAFOM_Nqb4
ReplyDeleteScottish Politics
ReplyDeletehttp://scottishpolitics.blogspot.com
Well one of my blog's names is there:
ReplyDeleteMiserable Old Fart. Unfortunately the link is to Alan in Dyfed's blog!
http://alanindyfed.blogspot.com/
Is not sure who is most insulted Alan or me :-)
However my blogs can be found on these URLS
Miserable Old Fart (English language)
http://miserableoldfart.blogspot.com/
Hen Rech Flin (Welsh language)
http://henrechflin.blogspot.com/
Both are Welsh, nationalist, right wing (in Wales - probably Commie from an English prospective) but not aligned to any political party - especially not Plaid (gwrth)Cymru!
Miserable Old Fart
Happy birthday Iain!
ReplyDeleteOK, I've clicked the link. Make me a Libertarian and I promise not to post when drunk again. /blush
ReplyDeleteYour Lib Dem Blogs section leaves a lot to be desired - you've included blogs by new bloggers who started 3 or 4 months ago but have left out blogs such as mine which have been going for 9 months...
ReplyDelete...Mystery...
Conservative blog
ReplyDeleteRichard Holloway - a sceptical conservative
www.richardholloway.co.uk
Non-aligned, London blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://londonsays.org/?page_id=10
PR/lobbying blog
ReplyDeletewww.pr-media-blog.co.uk
Iain,
ReplyDeleteMy www.nicolaswebb.com blog is listed in the Conservative list, which is great. I wonder if I might also qualify for the Wales list as well. My time is split between the South West of England and Wales. A lot of the political coverage in the blog relates to Wales.
The intro on the blog refers to coverage of "politics on both sides of the Severn Bridge and beyond"
Thanks
jakeberry.org
ReplyDeleteJake Berry PPC Rossendale and Darwen
Jo at 8.03, if you'd actually like to tell me what your blog is, I can add it - or indeed any other you think are missed off.
ReplyDeletehttp://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
ReplyDelete(Very) left of centre.
http://www.socialistunity.com
Likewise.
http://unionfutures.blogspot.com
Ditto.
Dear Iain
ReplyDeleteThanks for the offer - mine's missing
Labour Blog
Peter Kenyon
http://petergkenyon.typepad.com/
I'm generally top of Google searchs ahead of the Chelsea CE with whom I share a name.
No I'd rather create an air of mystery...
ReplyDeleteConservative / centre right blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://tomjacksononline.blogspot.com
I appear to be in the Tory category, when, if you look, I am a paid up member of the Libertarian Party, have it's banner both on my blog and in my blog header, and make the blogs affiliations quite clear.
ReplyDeletehttp://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteLibertarian blog of Libertarian Party member Matt Davies.
I'm in the Journalist section - thanks - not sure whether I should be in the Welsh-based section - I work in Westminster but my blog is "virtually" Welsh
ReplyDeletewww.davidcornock.blogspot.com
Not sure if this went through last time ...
ReplyDeleteThe Alice Dale Blog: www.alicedale.blogspot.com
I aim to remain in the centre but end up leaning to the left on a few issues.
Also The F Word blog is a good feminist blog: www.thefword.org.uk/blog
Conseevative Blog:
ReplyDeleteThe Right Student
www.therightstudent.com
Hope ya like! We were #1 on your Daley Dozen earlier in the year and gained an extra 2,000 hits in a day!
Many thanks
Oh ok - libdemjo.blogspot.com - despite the memorable url quite a few people forget it!!
ReplyDeleteQuestion That
ReplyDeletehttp://questionthat.me.uk
Party: Libertarian
Categories: Libertarian; Eurosceptic
Country: England
Cheers.
Martin Meenagh blog; non aligned blog concerned with politics, economics, history and culture
ReplyDeleteA few more Welsh ones that I couldn't see;
ReplyDeleteProf Dylan Jones-Evans
Conservative economist
http://dylanje.blogspot.com/
Pendroni
Plaid Cymru
http://heleddfychan.blogspot.com/
Penri James
Plaid Cymru
http://penrijamesceredigion.blogspot.com/
Blog Dogfael
Plaid Cymru Councillor
http://blogdogfael.org/
David Jones
Conservative MP
http://davidjonesclwydwest.blogspot.com/
David Cornnock
BBC reporter
http://davidcornock.blogspot.com/
Cllr Gwilym Euros Roberts
Llais Gwynedd (independent nationalist)
County Councillor
http://www.gwilymeurosroberts.blogspot.com/
Leighton Andrews
Labour Assembly Member
http://leightonandrews.typepad.com/leighton_andrews_am/
Martin Eaglestone
Labour
http://martin-eaglestone.blogspot.com/index.html
Miss Wagstaff
Gosip / commentator /non aligned
http://onewalesgovernment.blogspot.com/
Cambriapolitico
Journalist
http://cambriapolitico.com/
Mmm, I tend to defy categorisation.
ReplyDeleteRight of centre ex Tory with Nat sympathies, write a lot about Scottish politics but based in England.
www.stillnotgrownup.blogspot.com
Mate, you put me at 8th best English political blog last year and I'm not even listed on the English Nationalist blog directory!
ReplyDeleteI think I should be in English Nationalist, English (don't know if I am because there's no search and no order) and non-aligned.
Hi Ian,
ReplyDeleteI recently started a left of centre political blog (general political comment, from a centre left standpoint-concentrating more on policy than personality.)
Any publicity would be greatly appreciated-as it's a very new venture.
It's called 'On Politics: Comments on the State of the Nation.'
You can find it at:
www.mathewonpolitics.blogspot.com
Thanks,
Mathew Hulbert.
Stick mine in the left leaning (I suppose) & English catagories, please.
ReplyDeletesim-o.me.uk/blog
Oh, just a thought, what about an alphabetical listing?
ReplyDeleteI'm listed under conservative at my OLD site iangrey.blogspot.com- I'm libertarian and now at iangrey.org.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Ian
first class prick here, requesting a move from the onerous "Labour" category to left-wing, thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteWhy am I still quoted as NewerLabour? And why oh why have you used IE6 to do the previews?
ReplyDeleteSuch is the foolishness of the capitalist, I suppose. ;o)
right leaning liberal blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://cobdenscomments.blogspot.com
Labour: http://www.labourmatters.com/
ReplyDeleteI've got a blog:
ReplyDeletetreforjones@blogspot.com
Thanks
Trefor
Conservative PPC Anglesey
Non-aligned -
ReplyDeletebacktowardsthelocus.wordpress.com
One rather iffy one.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that its author wouldn't consider it "political" - but it is probably the Welsh blog that has created the most political controversy ever.
North Wales Chief Constable, Richard (I can never spell his surname right) Brumstrom's blog:
http://www.north-wales.police.uk/portal/blogs/cc/default.aspx
Oh dear, Mr Dale, you've left yourself open to all sorts of muddle-headed bloggers proposing their pitiful efforts. Actually, come to think of it, I rather like this one:
ReplyDeletethefatbigot.blogspot.com
I write the CEP Buckinghamshire blog
ReplyDeletehttp://cepbuckinghamshire.blogspot.com/
I know the CEP is listed but as each has a different author?
Gallimaufry & Chips:
ReplyDeleteEnglish, Disraeli Conservative
www.listeningblogger.blogspot.com
Most days it's rubbish!
Nice to be included - cheers. Five Chinese Crackers (http://5cc.blogspot.com) is most definitely not a Labour blog though. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
5cc
Mine is 'the broadsheet rag'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thebroadsheetrag.co.uk/
It's libertarian
Libertarian / religious blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://jerubbaalsvent.blogspot.com/
I try to include a lot about Northern issue too, buts it pretty sparse at the mo (the joys of being butter spread too thin) :-)
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteLibertarian
I'm in non-aligned there, but it is largely a Northern Irish unionist blog if you disregard the Russian, sport and literature content.
ReplyDeletehttp://threethousandversts.blogspot.com/
John Moorcraft
ReplyDeletehttp://moorcraft.blogspot.com/
Conservative and Welsh Based,
I can't believe that I submitted your blog instead of mine. How dim is that?
ReplyDeleteIt should have been:
http://liberalbob.blogspot.com/
Libertarian
My blog is oddly listed as Conservative - but thats OK I suppose I do like that nice Mr Cameron...
ReplyDeleteThe Marple Leaf - is a journalist blog my Michael Taylor, editorial director of Insider Media, a Manchester-based business publishing events and new media company.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.themarpleleaf.blogspot.com/
Lots of politics, ultra local, regional and national.
i have an unlisted blogpower blog...and i wanna play, too.
ReplyDeleteif you get the chance, swing by advice from a fake consultant.
in fact, my most recent story has a distinctly british slant...it's about the connection between john wilkes, john entick, and the us constitution's fourth amendment.
Conservative politics/ Languages (most Russian and Czech)
ReplyDeletewww.laurarosesaunders.blogspot.com
My blog is:
ReplyDeletewww.thelabourparty.org
I suppose it is an 'attack' blog - i.e. attacking this heinous Government but supporting our country and freedoms.
Based in Scotland; Non-aligned.
I have just today put up a blog based on thelabourparty.org which allows comments:
http://stewartcowan.wordpress.com/
You have mine listed as Conservative when it's Libertarian.
ReplyDeletelastditch.typepad.com
Another UKIP Blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.westbournemouthukip.com/purplemole.htm
Libertarian/Anarcho Humour
ReplyDeletehttp://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/
Plaid Cymru blog:
ReplyDeletebestforwales
http://bestforwales.blogspot.com/
Ca't find ours in your Labour list Iain, which is a shame since you've posted comments to it.
ReplyDeletewww.dogstarscribe.wordpress.com
Lib Dem blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://diblemming.blogspot.com
http://arightindividual.wordpress.com/
ReplyDeleteConservative, England. New blog, just starting up.
Not exclusively political, but I think there's enough politics here to justify inclusion:
ReplyDeleteClairwil
http://clairwil.blogspot.com/
gl0rify.com
ReplyDeleteAn 'old school' blog that features news articles rather than the blogger's own opinions.
'Libertarian' in the traditional sense rather than the Tory 'right to own slaves' sense.
Iain, did you get my e-mail about the Total Politics directory I sent last night? Hope it didn't get caught in a spam filter.
ReplyDeleteIan, I get hundreds of emails every day. Remind me what it was about.
ReplyDeleteIt had a spreadsheet attached, with information about blogs in the TP directory that are no longer being updated or have moved.
ReplyDelete