Sunday, September 07, 2008

(More) Buttons For Your Blog (If it Qualifies...!)

UPDATE: After several requests I have added more buttons to the range, including one for those who didn't make the Top Lists but are listed in the Total Politics Blog Directory. Also, in the comments Iain Lindley asked for the Top 100 Conservative & Top 100 Labour Blogs to be listed separtely from Right Wing and Left Wing. I have done so in the comments to this post.


















Mike Rouse has very kindly designed some buttons to be used by blogs who have featured in the recent lists, published here for the Total Politics Guide to UK Political Blogs 2008-9. If your blog featured in the relevant list, please do use the appropriate button in your blog sidebar. Feel free to link the button to the TP Blog Directory HERE if you'd like to.

Click HERE to read Mike Rouse's instructions on how to upload a button to your blog template.

If you would like a personalised button for your blog, Mike Rouse will do one for you for £10, of which £5 will go to Macmillan Cancer Relief. Contact details are on his blog HERE.

Here is the complete list of Best Blog Lists

Top 100 UK Political Blogs
Top 200 UK Political Blogs 200-101
Top 100 Right of Centre Blogs
Top 100 Left of Centre Blogs
Top 50 LibDem Blogs
Top 20 MP Blogs
Top 40 Welsh Blogs
Top 40 Scottish Blogs
Top 10 Northern Irish Blogs
Top 20 Non Aligned Blogs
Top 20 Libertarian Blogs
Top 20 Green Blogs
Top 30 Media Blogs

20 comments:

  1. I thought there was an English list as well?

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  2. Could you do a button for top 200 overall blogs? :-)))

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  3. How about some awards for blog commentators - you bloggers would be no where at all without us! The anon guy is pretty good if a little inconsistent.

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  4. I'd like a button that states that the blog is one of the top 100 overall blogs, if poss.

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  5. Northern Ireland? is our flag too controversial?

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  6. Wonlotsane, I explained this on another thread. Of the Top 100, 89 are based in England, so the list is more or less identical.

    Blue Eyes, your wish... The button for Top 200 is now shown.

    Heresiach, er there is one. It's at the top.

    Chekov. I will see if Mike can do another one. As there was only a Top 10 list, it seemed an extravagence to do one which only one or two of those might use.

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  7. Many thanks Iain / mIke. Hands across the UK and all that! ;-)

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  8. What about the top parliamentary blogs?

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  9. So it's another case of England is too big, let's call it Britain? I thought you were opposed to that sort of thing Iain?

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  10. What about a 'Didn't want to take part' badge?

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  11. As someone else has pointed out, is it really wise to have what looks rather like a Red Hand of Ulster in the Northern Ireland button?

    DK

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  12. Iain,

    It would be interesting to see a list of Top 100 Labour and Top 100 Conservative Blogs to go with the Top 50 LibDem Blogs. Having a quick flick-through of the "right of centre" top 100 I'd say at least a third (if not more) are politically-unaligned or at least non-Conservative. I assume it is similar for the left of centre list. Is this possible?

    Regards,

    Iain

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  13. TOP 100 Conservative Blogs

    1 Iain Dale
    2 Conservative Home
    3 Dizzy Thinks
    4 Burning our Money
    5 John Redwood MP
    6 Archbishop Cranmer
    7 Mr Eugenides
    8 Daniel Hannan MEP
    9 Donal Blaney
    10 Waendel Journal
    11 Nadine Dorries
    12 Letters from a Tory
    13 Shane Greer
    14 A Very British Dude
    15 Daily Referendum
    16 Paul Scully
    17 Glyn Davies
    18 Croydonian
    19 James Cleverly
    20 Raedwald
    21 Tory Bear
    22 Pint of Unionist Lite
    23 Ellee Seymour
    24 Scottish Tory Boy
    25 Matt Wardman
    26 Ewan Watt
    27 Centre Right
    28 Andrew McConnell
    29 Hunter & Shooter
    30 Alan Collins
    31 Sinclair's Musings
    32 Mike Rouse
    33 Newmania
    34 Neil Reddin
    35 Zehra in Oxfordshire
    36 Angels in Marble
    37 Faulkner Journal
    38 Web Cameron
    39 Andrew Allison
    40 Bristow Blog
    41 Debateable Land
    42 Fugitive Ink
    43 Man in a Shed
    44 Nourishing Obscurity
    45 Iain Lindley
    46 Not Proud of Britain
    47 West Brom Blog
    48 Jeremy Hunt MP
    49 Laban Tall
    50 Lone Voice
    51 Prodicus
    52 Tory Radio
    53 Cassilis
    54 David Jones MP
    55 Matt Dean
    56 Appalling Strangeness
    57 Linguanaut
    58 Right Student
    59 Antony Little
    60 Daily Pundit
    61 Free Market Fairy Tales
    62 John Moorcraft
    63 Douglas Carswell
    64 Mike Flower
    65 Nicolas Webb
    66 Play Political
    67 Richard Spring MP
    68 Tales from a Draughty Old Fen
    69 House of Dumb
    70 Depleted Uranium
    71 Dylan Jones-Evans
    72 Ed Vaizey MP
    73 Fulham Reactionary
    74 Havering On
    75 James Barlow
    76 John Ward
    77 Laura Rose Saunders
    78 Monkey with a Blue Rosette
    79 Rachel Joyce
    80 Tory Heaven
    81 Bel is Thinking
    82 Evan Price
    83 Roger Evans MLA
    84 The Tap
    85 UCL Conservatives
    86 Cameron Rose
    87 Charlotte Leslie
    88 Kevin Davis
    89 Tracey Crouch
    90 A Conservative's Blog
    91 Alfred the Ordinary
    92 Andrew Bridgen
    93 Conservative History Group
    94 Curly's Corner Shop
    95 Dave Luckett
    96 Maida Vae Conservatives
    97 Phil Taylor
    98 Prince Park Conservatives
    99 Thunder Dragon
    100 Tommy the Tory

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  14. TOP 100 LABOUR BLOGS

    1 Tom Harris MP
    2 Hopi Sen
    3 Recess Monkey
    4 Luke Akehurst
    5 LabourHome
    6 Tom Watson MP
    7 Sadie's Tavern
    8 Labour Outlook
    9 Obsolete
    10 Bloggers4Labour
    11 Theo's Blog
    12 Kezia Dugdale's Sopabox
    13 Bob Piper
    14 Forgesian Thinking
    15 Stuart King
    16 Never Trust a Hippy
    17 Chris Paul's Labour of Love
    18 Conor's Commentary
    19 John McDonnell MP
    20 Jane's the One
    21 Progress
    22 Rupa Huq
    23 Byrne Baby Byrne
    24 Tory Troll
    25 Nosemonkey's Eutopia
    26 Grimmer up North
    27 Kerron Cross
    28 Three Score Years & Ten
    29 Labour and Capital
    30 Mars Hill
    31 Wheeler's Website
    32 John's Labour Blog
    33 Harpymarx
    34 Kerry McCarthy
    35 New Direction
    36 Councillor Terry Kelly
    37 Stroppy Blog
    38 Defend the NHS
    39 Jon's Union Blog
    40 Paul Flynn MP
    41 Andrew Burns's Really Bad Blog
    42 Don Paskini
    43 Macuaid
    44 Fair Deal Phil
    45 Freemania
    46 Jon Worth Euroblog
    47 Labour Matters
    48 Ephems
    49 Parburypolitica
    50 Peter Kenyon
    51 Tigmoo
    52 Wilted Rose
    53 E8 Voice
    54 Hayes People's History
    55 Pamphlet Labour
    56 Between the Hammer & the Anvil
    57 Complex System of Pipes
    58 Leighton Andrews AM
    59 Some Day I Will Treat You Good
    60 Tulip Siddiq
    61 Antonia Bance
    62 Cowan Report
    63 Huw Lewis AM
    64 Union Futures
    65 Washminster
    66 Aitken's Edinburgh
    67 Billy Hayes
    68 Hak Mao
    69 HF Conwatch
    70 Political Hack
    71 Skipper
    72 Austin Mitchell MP
    73 Cuts in Camden
    74 I Intend to Escape
    75 Nation of Duncan
    76 Blog of Dave Cole
    77 Louise Baldock
    78 Geoff Sez
    79 International Rooksbyism
    80 Pootergeek
    81 Sadiq Khan MP
    82 4glengate
    83 Martin Eaglestone
    84 Politaholic

    That's all the Labour blogs that got votes

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  15. Probably important to say (before Dave Cole and Sadie have heart attacks) that we are not party aligned as an overall blog.

    ;-)

    Rgds

    Matt Wardman

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  16. Thanks Iain, much appreciated. :)

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  17. Mr Dale,

    His Grace is most delighted to see that he is No6 on this list, which has not previously been disclosed, and which says rather more than the 'right of centre' list into which, presumably, you would place a BNP or Nazi blog.

    His Grace now humbly requests a 'Top 100 Conservatives Blogs' button, for he would rather promote his political philosophy than the increasingly meaningless 'right wing'.

    Sincere blessings.

    +Cranmer

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  18. That was most quick and efficient.

    Bless you.

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  19. Well, Iain, I've no idea what the difference is supposed to be between a "Conservative" and a "Right-of-centre" blog anyway. How are these things decided? Does one have to be a member of the party? (as to the designation "right-wing", that has rather unpleasant connotations that I would shy away from).

    Can I use the Conservative badge?

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