Jon Bright (London, OK): OurKingdom finds itself slightly chuffed to be featured in Iain Dale's round up of the UK's best and brightest political blogs. Dale's list, voted for by readers of his own blog, identifies 500 UK poliblogs as worth a read. The stats are relatively predictable: fourteen of the top twenty blogs lean towards the right and only five of the five hundred can claim a genuinely large readership (I'm sure you can guess which ones) - i.e. one that is in five figures per day. But the UK's political blogosphere is growing - Dale says he knew of only 600 political blogs last year, comapred to 1200 this year. And, perhaps more importantly, the mainstream press is waking up to the idea - Nick Robinson, Ben Brogan, the Spectator's Coffee House - all are growing in importance as the big names behind them pay them more attention. Dale himself is at the top of the tree, of course.
OK weighs in at a relatively respectable 51/500 (which makes us 7/100 in the non-aligned category), though the high rate of turnover in the blogniverse has surely seen us climb a bit since the list was created. What will it take to push us into the top 10 - or crack a genuinely large readership? As always, suggestions are welcome. But for now - if you only read 51 political blogs today, Dale recommends you read OurKingdom.
Thanks to Matt Wardman for the graphic.
