My top 20 political blogs

In the spirit of the recent listmaking, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon. What follows is the 20 blogs I follow the most.

They are all political, though some have different focusses and flavours. I've not included any based outside of the UK to make my life easier. I've also not included any at CiF, because while some are great reads, they're just not proper blogs are they?

Most of those I've listed are what I started off with in the blogosphere a year or two ago, and I've admittedly not been the best at keeping up with new additions. There has to be marks for consistency anyway. Would love to hear your own favourites.

In alphabetical order:

• Beau Bo D'or
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil
• A Big Stick and a Small Carrot
• BlairWatch
• Chicken Yoghurt
• Craig Murray
• The Fanonite
• Five Chinese Crackers
• Indigo Jo Blogs
• Islamophobia Watch
• J. Arthur MacNumpty
• Lenin's Tomb
• North to Leith
• Obsolete
• Scots and Independent
• Scottish Futures
• Scottish Roundup
• SpinWatch
• Tartan Hero
• 1820

Comments

[Gus Abraham]

Here's three other great blogs Osama:

Visceral:
http://kevinwilliamson.blogspot.com/
Lucid:
http://unspeak.net/
Insightful:
http://tomgriffin.typepad.com/

[lenin]

Ah thenkyoo. I would include the following in my own list (aside from your own):

http://lecolonelchabert.blogspot.com
http://arabist.net/arabawy
http://qlipoth.blogspot.com
http://brownfemipower.net
http://angryarab.blogspot.com
http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/index.asp
http://ellissharp.blogspot.com/

Cheers.

[Abu Sinan]

Angry Arab is a must. Juan Cole at:
juancole.com is another.

Cross Roads Arabia at:

http://www.xrdarabia.org/

Pat Lang at:

http://www.turcopolier.typepad.com/

And Abu Aardvark:

http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/

These are all blogs that are very scholarly in their approach to the Middle East and Islam, all of them experts.

[Yahya Aktar]

Salaams Osama,
I would flag up UmmahPulse as a blog that is a definite for your list.

http://www.ummahpulse.co.uk/

Wassalam
Yahya

[Osama]

Totally agree Abu Sinan, I'd left out the international blogs though to keep the list easier for me.

[Sohaib]

Glad to see English-based blogs haven't yet fallen under your definition of "international". ;-)

[Abu Sinan]

Someday, Insha'Allah Sohaib, Insha'Allah!