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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

The Total Politics Top 100 UK Political Blogs

You will be relieved to hear that this is the final blogging list. More than 1,140 of you voted in the poll and more than 75 blogs encouraged their readers to take part. This is not a scientific poll, and has never pretended to be, but because of the number of people taking part and the number of blogs promoting it, it is certainly more representative this year than in 2007 and 2006.

The voting system used to compile this list was simple. Bloggers and blog readers were asked to rank their top ten blogs and then email them to Total Politics. The results were then fed into a spreadsheet, with the top blog getting ten points, the second blog nine points, and so on. In total, people voted for more than 590 different blogs. I only list the Top 100 here, but the Top 200 will be printed in the book (published tomorrow) which you can buy HERE. You will also be able to download it as a free pdf from the Total Politics website from next week.

All the lists contained in the rest of the book are also compiled directly from this main list. So for the first time each list I have published in the last two weeks and featured in the book has been voted or by the public, rather than compiled by an expert panel of bloggers.

The top positions in the Top 200 list are similar to last year’s, although six blogs have broken into the Top 20 – Tom Harris MP, Dan Hannan MEP, Three Line Whip, Hopi Sen, LibDem Voice and John Redwood MP. • Out of the Top 20, fifteen blogs are on the right and three are on the left.

• Out of the Top 100, 48 blogs are on the right and 30 are on the left.
• The Top 100 features 27 Conservative blogs, 16 Labour and 10 LibDem
• The Top 200 features 37 Conservative blogs, 33 Labour and 21 LibDem
• The Top 500 features 105 Conservative blogs, 74 Labour and 56 LibDem
• Of the Top 500, 170 are on the right and 268 on the left
• 44 out of the Top 100 were not in last year’s Top 100.

Similar to last year, right of centre blogs still dominate the upper reaches of the chart. Last year I predicted that three or four left of centre blogs would challenge at the top. That hasn’t quite happened, although Tom Harris MP and Hopi Sen may well do so in the next twelve months. The left of centre group blog Liberal Conspiracy is also set to break into the top 20 and has grown in popularity in a very short time.

Voting this year appeared to come from a much wider range of bloggers than before, mainly because around 75 different blogs advertised the vote on their sites. Liberal Conspiracy encouraged a boycott of the whole exercise as they felt that because it was being organized by someone on the right, right wing bloggers would be the only beneficiaries. The boycott was boycotted by most blogs on the left, and for good reason if you look at the fact that there are now far more left of centre blogs in the Top 500 than right of centre ones – 268 to 170. The challenge now for those blogs is to turn their numerical superiority into extra readers who stick with them.

Up to now, I have been relatively dismissive of left of centre blogs as I felt they tended to very insular and only spoke to themselves. Successful blogs tend to attract readers from all over the political spectrum, and are not just echo chambers. At least, that’s one definition of success. Blogs like Hopi Sen and the LibDem People’s Republic of Mortimer have risen high in the chart because they were very well written, at times quite humorous, but also provide an insight for outsiders to the way their political mindset works.

Then, of course, there are the so-called Marmite blogs – the ones you either love or hate. Donal Blaney, Devil’s Kitchen and Nadine Dorries on the right, and to a lesser extent Recess Monkey on the left, have all carved out that particular niche for themselves.

It has been hugely disappointing that the last twelve months has seen no rise in the number of blogging MPs. The only notable arrival is Labour Minister Tom Harris. Our politicians seem to love reading blogs but fear writing them. Perhaps that will never change, but those who fear blogging should look at the example of John Redwood whose blog has become required reading for anyone interested in economic policy. But not only is he attracting regular readers on the right, he’s also getting the media reading his blog, and people on the left.

The main blogs have all experienced a continuing rise is readers. This year has seen huge controversies in the blogging world about the way in which blog statistics are counted. Most bloggers now use Google Analytics to count their readers, with Absolute Unique Visitors as the yardstick by which blogs are judged. Newspaper websites still use pageviews as their method of counting readers.

Guido Fawkes became the first blogger to reach 100,000 absolute unique visitors in any one month, with my blog reaching 70,000. But you don’t have to go much further down the Top 10 to find blogs which struggle to reach 20,000. PoliticalBetting has never published its absolute unique visitor count but boasts of being the most popular blog in the country by virtue of the fact that it has more than 1 million pageviews a month. What it doesn’t tell you is that many of its readers spend all evening on the site hitting refresh.

An interesting move in the last few months was the purchase by the New Statesman of LabourHome. They apparently paid more than £50,000, which for a blog which attracts a relatively small readership was quire some feat for its owners Alex Hilton and Jag Singh. It has struggled to emulate its Conservative equivalent because it has never had a full time editor. Guido Fawkes reckoned his site was now worth in excess of £1 million based on the valuation of LabourHome, but he misses an important point. Single person blogs are valueless to an outside buyer without the person who made the blog successful in the first place. They can only ever gain any value by moving within the ambit of the mainstream media.

What will the next twelve months bring? Here are seven predictions…

• Labour blogs will become more prominent as the media seeks controversial views on the Labour leadership
• The MSM will make further efforts to lure several of the more well known bloggers to blog for them
• LibDem Voice will receive a cash injection similar to LabourHome from a rich LibDem donor
• One big blogger will shock the blogging world by giving up
• Liberal Conspiracy will make headway in the next twelve months and double its readership
• ConservativeHome will undergo a transformation with Tim Montgomerie concentrating on other projects and Jonathan Isaby giving the site a makeover
• Blog readership will increase by 50%

So, here, at long last is the Top 100... Remember, it's not meant to be scientific, and has never pretended to be! Last year's position is in brackets. You can see positions 200-101 on the Total Politics Campaigns Blog HERE.

1. (2) Guido Fawkes
2. (1) Iain Dale
3. (4) Conservative Home
4. (3) Dizzy Thinks
5. (-) Political Betting
6. (-) Devil's Kitchen
7. (9) Spectator Coffee House
8. (12) Burning our Money
9. (42) John Redwood
10. (14) Ben Brogan
11. (20) EU Referendum
12. (15) Tim Worstall
13. (-) Tom Harris MP
14. (13) Archbishop Cranmer
15. (54) LibDem Voice
16. (16) Mr Eugenides
17. (-) Hopi Sen
18. (85) Daniel Hannan MEP
19. (-) Three Line Whip
20. (70) Stumbling & Mumbling
21. (35) Donal Blaney
22. (128) Boulton & Co
23. (-) Liberal Conspiracy
24. (8) Nick Robinson
25. (-) People's Republic of Mortimer
26. (11) Recess Monkey
27. (56) Adam Smith Institute
28. (27) Comment Central
29. (72) Luke Akehurst
30. (47) Waendel Journal
31. (38) LabourHome
32. (30) Ministry of Truth
33. (22) Tom Watson MP
34. (33) Nadine Dorries
35. (46) Dave's Part
36. (-) Letters from a Tory
37. (17) Norfolk Blogger
38. (-) Shane Greer
39. (-) Sadie's Tavern
40. (45) Samizdata
41. (32) Slugger O'Toole
42. (111) A Very British Dude
43. (21) Harry's Place
44. (-) SNP Tactical Voting
45. (61) Quaequam Blog
46. (104) UK Polling Report
47. (182) Socialist Unity
48. (59) Daily Referendum
49. (53) Liberal England
50. (172) Lynne Featherstone MP
51. (18) Paul Linford
52. (68) City Unslicker/Capitalists at Work
53. (51) Our Kingdom
54. (-) Labour Outlook
55. (63) Millennium Dome Elephant
56. (155) Paul Scully
57. (-) A Very Public Sociologist
58. (90) Peter Black AM
59. (78) Glyn Davies
60. (195) Obsolete
61. (99) Ordovicius
62. (-) UK Libertarian Party
63. (40) Biased BBC
64. (7) Croydonian
65. (69) James Cleverly
66. (-) Is There More to Life Than Shoes
67. (-) J Arthur MacNumpty
68. (120) Normblog
69. (-) Raedwald
70. (-) Three Thousand Versts
71. (-) Tory Bear
72. (-) Miss Wagstaff Presents
73. (52) Bloggers4Labour
74. (-) Pint of Unionist Lite
75. (151) Theo's Blog
76. (-) Kezia Dugdale's Soapbox
77. (71) Beau Bo D'Or
78. (25) Bob Piper
79. (-) David Cornock
80. (-) Forgesian Thinking
81. (-) Heresy Corner
82. (103) Love & Liberty
83. (125) The Daily (Maybe)
84. (161) Peter Hitchens
85. (81) Melanie Phillips
86. (0) Redemption's Son
87. (10) Ellee Seymour
88. (0) Lenin's Tomb
89. (83) Liberal Burblings
90. (-) Scottish Tory Boy
91. (-) Stuart King
92. (86) Matt Wardman
93. (34) Pickled Politics
94. (0) Ewan Watt
95. (41) An Englishman's Castle
96. (0) Centre Right
97. (0) Never Trust a Hippy
98. (0) Red Box
99. (76) Chris Paul's Labour of Love
100. (50) Last Ditch

If your blog features in this list, or any of the others, click HERE to get a sidebar button.

All the blog lists, along with articles by leading bloggers are published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published tomorrow and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top Blogs: A Taster: 200-101

Tomorrow, I will publish the list of the Top 100 Political Blogs in the UK as voted by the readers of Total Politics and various blogs. As a taster, you can see positions 200-101 on the Total Politics Campaigns blog HERE.


The Top 100 will appear here shortly after midnight tonight.

Top 100 Right of Centre Blogs

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COMING TOMORROW: THE FINAL LIST!
THE TOP 100 UK POLITICAL BLOGS

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1. Guido Fawkes
2. Iain Dale
3. Conservative Home
4. Dizzy Thinks
5. Devil's Kitchen
6. Spectator Coffee House
7. Burning our Money
8. John Redwood
9. Ben Brogan
10. EU Referendum
11. Tim Worstall
12. Archbishop Cranmer
13. Mr Eugenides
14. Daniel Hannan MEP
15. Three Line Whip
16. Donal Blaney
17. Comment Central
18. Adam Smith Institute
19. Waendel Journal
20. Nadine Dorries
21. Letters from a Tory
22. Shane Greer
23. Samizdata
24. A Very British Dude
25. Daily Referendum
26. City Unslicker/Capitalists at Work
27. Paul Scully
28. Glyn Davies
29. UK Libertarian Party
30. Biased BBC
31. Croydonian
32. James Cleverly
33. Is There More to Life Than Shoes
34. Raedwald
35. Tory Bear
36. Pint of Unionist Lite
37. Heresy Corner
38. Peter Hitchens
39. Melanie Phillips
40. Redemption's Son
41. Ellee Seymour
42. Scottish Tory Boy
43. Matt Wardman
44. Ewan Watt
45. An Englishman's Castle
46. Centre Right
47. Last Ditch
48. Mark Wadsworth
49. Andrew McConnell
50. Huntsman
51. Hunter & Shooter
52. Taxpayers' Alliance
53. England Expects
54. Freedom & Whisky
55. Old Holborn
56. Alan Collins
57. Charles Crawford
58. Nought Point Zero
59. Sinclair's Musings
60. Behind Blue Eyes
61. Mike Rouse
62. Nation of Shopkeepers
63. Bishop Hill
64. Open Europe
65. Newmania
66. Neil Reddin
67. Zehra in Gloucestershire
68. Angels in Marble
69. Faulkner Journal
70. Web Cameron
71. Question That
72. Andrew Allison
73. Bristow Blog
74. Debateable Land
75. Fugitive Ink
76. Man in a Shed
77. Nourishing Obscurity
78. Iain Lindley
79. Not Proud of Britain
80. West Brom Blog
81. Obnoxio the Clown
82. Social Affairs Unit
83. Jeremy Hunt MP
84. UK Commentators
85. Lone Voice
86. PJC Journal
87. Prodicus
88. Tory Radio
89. Looking for a Voice
90. Brussels Journal
91. Last of the Few
92. Little Man in a Toque
93. Not a Sheep Maybe a Goat
94. Cassilis
95. David Jones MP
96. Matt Dean
97. Appalling Strangeness
98. Linguanaut
99. Right Student
100. Antony Little

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 75 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 100 Left of Centre Blogs

1. Tom Harris MP
2. Hopi Sen
3. Stumbling & Mumbling
4. Liberal Conspiracy
5. Recess Monkey
6. Luke Akehurst
7. LabourHome
8. Tom Watson MP
9. Ministry of Truth
10. Dave's Part
11. Sadie's Tavern
12. Harry's Place
13. SNP Tactical Voting
14. Socialist Unity
15. Paul Linford
16. Labour Outlook
17. A Very Public Sociologist
18. Obsolete
19. Ordovicius
20. Normblog
21. Bloggers4Labour
22. Theo's Blog
23. Kezia Dugdale's Soapbox
24. Beau Bo D'Or
25. Bob Piper
26. Forgesian Thinking
27. The Daily (Maybe)
28. Stuart King
29. Lenin's Tomb
30. Pickled Politics
31. Never Trust a Hippy
32. Chris Paul's Labour of Love
33. Bloggerheads
34. Chicken Yoghurt
35. Bethan Jenkins AM
36. Conor's Commentary
37. John McDonnell MP
38. Neil Clark
39. Adam Price MP
40. Snowflake5
41. Jane's the One
42. Progress
43. Two Doctors
44. Rupa Huq
45. The F Word
46. Fat Man on a Keyboard
47. Cynical Dragon
48. Scots and Independent
49. Byrne Baby Byrne
50. Rachel North London
51. Drink Soaked Trots
52. Adam Smith was a Socialist
53. Tory Troll
54. Penny Red
55. Kevin Maguire
56. Nosemonkey's Eutopia
57. Five Chinese Crackers
58. Grimmer up North
59. Guerilla Welsh Fare
60. Welsh Ramblings
61. Kerron Cross
62. Three Score Years & Ten
63. Labour and Capital
64. Mars Hill
65. Wheeler's Website
66. Indygal
67. Tartan Hero
68. John's Labour Blog
69. Charlie Beckett
70. Ian Bone
71. Another Green World
72. Harpymarx
73. Blog Menai
74. Kerry McCarthy MP
75. The Exile
76. New Direction
77. Lancaster Unity
78. Modernity
79. Organised Rage
80. Madam Miaow Says...
81. Calum Cashley
82. Clairwil
83. Councillor Terry Kelly
84. Stroppy Blog
85. Shiraz Socialist
86. Labour Left Forum
87. Amlwch to Magor
88. Defend the NHS
89. Jon's Union Blog
90. Paul Flynn MP
91. Scribo Ergo Sum
92. Andrew Burns's Really Bad Blog
93. Don Paskini
94. Oliver Kamm
95. Bid for Freedom
96. Macuaid
97. Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey
98. Sit Down Man
99. Tygerland
100. Jon Worth Euroblog

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 75 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 50 LibDem Blogs

1. LibDem Voice
2. People's Republic of Mortimer
3. Norfolk Blogger
4. Quaequam Blog
5. Liberal England
6. Lynne Featherstone MP
7. Millennium Dome Elephant
8. Peter Black AM
9. Love & Liberty
10. Liberal Burblings
11. Cicero's Songs
12. Because Baronesses Are People Too
13. Neil Stockley
14. Jock Coats
15. Stephen's Linlithgow Journal
16. Lindylooz Muse
17. Schneider Home
18. Yorksher Gob
19. Dib Lemming
20. Real Blog
21. Hug a Hoodie
22. Jo Christie-Smith
23. Orange by Name
24. Just 474 to Win
25. A Load of Old Stodge
26. Jonathan Fryer
27. Jo's Jottings
28. Fraser Macpherson
29. Lanson Boy
30. Liberty Alone
31. Redlands Liberal Democrats
32. Anything Caron Can Do
33. Brian Robson
34. Suz Blog
35. Wit & Wisdom
36. Wouldn't it be Scarier?
37. Anders Hanson
38. Eric Avebury
39. Irfan Ahmed
40. Neil Woolcott
41. Paint the Town Orange
42. Sound of Gunfire
43. Antony Hook
44. Caron's Musings
45. Disgruntled Radical
46. Do What You're Told
47. Gavin's Gaily Gigest
48. A Radical View
49. Bridget's Blog
50. Susan Gaszczak

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 40 Scottish Blogs

1 Tom Harris MP
2 Mr Eugenides
3 SNP Tactical Voting
4 J Arthur MacNumpty
5 Kezia Dugdale's Sopabox
6 Scottish Tory Boy
7 Ideas of Civilisation
8 Two Doctors
9 Scots and Independent
10 Adam Smith was a Socialist
11 Stephen's Linlithgow Journal
12 Freedom & Whisky
13 Indygal
14 Tartan Hero
15 Blether with Brian
16 Doctor Vee
17 Calum Cashley
18 Clairwil
19 Cassilis
20 Andrew Burns's Really Bad Blog
21 Bid for Freedom
22 Fraser Macpherson
23 Granite City
24 North to Leith
25 Underdogs Bite Upwards
26 Anything Caron Can Do
27 Havering On
28 Malc in the Burgh
29 Sound of Gunfire
30 Caron's Musings
31 Scottish Roundup
32 Cameron Rose
33 Aitken's Edinburgh
34 Alastair's Heart Monitor
35 Katy Gordon
36 Andrew Reeves
37 Bellgrove Belle
38 Holyrood Chronicles
39 Political Dissuasion
40 Justified Spinner

UPDATE: Stephen Glenn has pointed out an error. In the original list, number 26 was Peter Cranie, who is actually a green blog based in England. The LibDem blog Anything Caron Can Do should have been listed at number 26 so I have now added it in. My apologies to Iain Dale (the other one!) who writes Anything Caron Can Do for the error.

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 40 Welsh Blogs

Plaid Cymru will be pleased with their showing in the Welsh Top Blogs list, with 18 of the 40 places going to nationalist blogs.

1. Peter Black AM
2. Glyn Davies
3. Ordovicius
4. Miss Wagstaff Presents
5. David Cornock
6. Miserable Old Fart
7. Cambria Politico
8. Bethan Jenkins AM
9. Betsan Powys
10. Adam Price MP
11. Cynical Dragon
12. Vaughan Roderick
13. Guerilla Welsh Fare
14. Valleys Mam
15. Welsh Ramblings
16. Dib Lemming
17. Hen Rech Flin
18. Blog Menai
19. Lone Voice
20. Amlwch to Magor
21. Welsh Blog Index
22. David Jones MP
23. Paul Flynn MP
24. 07.25 to Paddington
25. Borthlas
26. Blog Dogfael
27. John Moorcraft
28. Andrew Nutt
29. Ceredig
30. Nicolas Webb
31. Dylan Jones-Evans
32. Inside Out @ Swansea
33. Leighton Andrews AM
34. Elfyn Llwyd
35. Huw Lewis AM
36. Jill Evans MEP
37. Gwilym Euros Roberts
38. New Welsh Right
39. Independence Cymru
40. Martin Eaglestone

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 20 Non Aligned Blogs

1. Political Betting
2. Slugger O'Toole
3. UK Polling Report
4. Our Kingdom
5. Three Thousand Versts
6. Miss Wagstaff Presents
7. Beau Bo D'Or
8. NHS Blog Doctor
9. Cambria Politico
10. Miserable Old Fart
11. Everything Ulster
12. Ideas of Civilisation
13. Olly's Onions
14. London Mayor & More
15. To Miss With Love
16. Hoby
17. Spy Blog
18. A Tangled Web
19. Craig Murray
20. Enemies of Reason

This list excludes Media blogs.

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also pre-order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 10 Northern Irish Blogs

1. Slugger O'Toole
2. Three Thousand Versts
3. A Pint of Unionist Lite
4. Redemption's Son
5. Conor's Commentary
6. Everything Ulster
7. Devenport Diaries
8. Balrog
9. Modern Unionist Voice
10. O'Conall Street

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote. These were the thirty most popular media blogs blogs.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can now also order it via the Total Politics website for £12 inc p&p. You will receive it in mid September.

Top 20 MP Blogs

1. John Redwood
2. Tom Harris
3. Tom Watson
4. Nadine Dorries
5. Lynne Featherstone
6. Adam Price MP
7. John McDonnell
8. Kerry McCarthy
9. Jeremy Hunt
10. David Jones
11. Paul Flynn
12. Douglas Carswell
13. Richard Spring
14. Ed Vaizey
15. Elfyn Llwyd
16. Austin Mitchell
17. Sadiq Khan
18. Steve Webb
19. John Hemming
20. Adrian Sanders

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine. Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote. These were the thirty most popular media blogs blogs.

The full results will be published in the Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2008-9 which is published on 5 September and will be available at all the party conferences. You can also order it via the Total Politics website from the end of this week.