The 23rd most popular left-wing blogger is…me!

I’m dead chuffed to have been placed 23rd in the top 75 left-wing bloggers in the recent Total Politics awards. It’s nice to know I’m being read, and strange to see my name close to longer established journalists like George Monbiot, and ahead of people like Johann Hari, although given his own troubles this year,

Nadine Dorries: ‘70% fiction’

In quite an extraordinary way, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, Nadine Dorries, has admitted her blog was ‘70% fiction’ in a somewhat bizarre attempt to ‘reassure’ her constituents that she was not shirking her duties. “My blog is 70% fiction and 30% fact. It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know