Louise Bagshawe's blogroll

I’m afraid my young son had a tremendous coughing fit yesterday night and I didn’t get time to write a column this week. So as a substitute, I thought I might do a blogroll and pick out a few of the sites I read on a regular basis. As a novelist I always have the internet open in the background, and these are some of the sites I read during my probably too frequent coffee-breaks...

Political Betting: Simply the best website around for poll analysis. Updates frequently, main post up early in the morning. Attracts commenters from across the political spectrum, and thus unique in the world of political blogging

Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes: No introduction needed:.

Ben Brogan This guy is the ultimate Westminster insider. Gets poll news first. Usually doesn’t update in the early morning.

Anthony Wells: Brilliant polling site. Constituency discussions on each individual seat. Again, commenters from across the spectrum but Anthony’s analysis is the draw here – that and the individual seat analysis, which is not copied.

American sites...

Real Clear Politics: Every serious blogger’s first stop for polling analysis and news round-up on the American elections. Unmissable during tight US contests.

The Corner on National Review Online: The widest-read and most important Republican blog. No comments, doesn’t matter.

Daily Kos: Boy do I disagree with the great Graeme Archer’s last column that all the decent Americans are democrats. This blog is the granddaddy of the left in America, and Labour Home was designed to copy it (IMO). But it reveals all the worst of rampant liberalism in its disgraceful comments section. I recall the lovely episode where the Kossacks gloated over the tears of a little girl, the daughter of Sen. Rick Santorum, when he lost his seat in the mid-terms. If you want to know why I root against the Democrats, this site has the answer. Unmissable if you want to know what the conspiracy theorists are thinking this week.

And two non-political ones for the budding screenwriters amongst you...

Wordplay: The best site on the internet for screenwriting, run by my friend Ted Elliott and his writing partner Terry Rossio (PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN trilogy, SHREK, ALADDIN, MASK OF ZORRO, NATIONAL TREASURE, etc). The columns form a complete course.

And lastly, written by my friend Craig Mazin (SCARY MOVIE 3 and 4 and many others) and Ted Elliott, the Artful Writer, more of a place for the professional screenwriter. My guild, the Writers’ Guild of America, is on strike. The people! United! Shall never be defeated! Etc. Get the news on whether your favourite shows will be cancelled right here:

Comments

[Tony Makara]

I'm not sure whether I can endorse 'Rush Limbaugh's' website as being a blog as Rush is a superstar in America, but rushlimbaugh.com is a good place to go if you like punchy Conservative politics with a lot of humour. Watch out though Rush will expect you to pay to use all the site! You can listen to him for free every weekday on WTIC radio at 1700 uk time. Rush does a three hour show and leaves no liberal stone unturned!

[Justin Hinchcliffe]

Gosh, my blog is missing! How could you? (-:

www.hunterandshooter.blogspot.com

[Grayling4Leader]

we need politicians who are busy DOING THINGS and FIGHTING our political enemies - not spending all day on blogs.

The Big Man Grayling spends his days getting blood on his fists - not reading amateur politicians' musings.

[Moral minority]

I am surprised that the American townhall.com is missing from Ms Bagshawe's rather strange list. That is most comprehensive Republican site with over 20 regular commentators.

The websites of The American Spectator, Frontpage, The American Conservative, Chronicles magazine and Reason magazine have lots of interesting articles from widely differing perspectives.

Takimag, i.e. online mag of The Spectator's Taki is worth a visit too. Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic magazine is unmissable. LewRockwell.com is a great libertarian, anti-war site that promotes Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican nomination.

[Louise Bagshawe]

Justin how could I have forgotten! I also left out the most important ones of all, my Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2398782364&ref=nf

and the campaign website which you can get by clicking on my name!

[Moral minority]

Knowing Grayling personally, he is anything but leadership material. He may be good at digging for dirt but his policy development skills are awful. And he made a pig's ear of the Fox leadership campaign!

[DavisFan]

Grayling4Leader is right (for once).

David Davis got to where he is by smacking his opponents about and then viciously claiming their scalps.

I doubt he spends his time reading the would-be member for Maidstone's musings. In fact, he hasn't read anything since he entered parliament.

[DavisFan]

I have clicked on your website, Louise, and am delighted to see you pictured with the TORY HERO that is ROGER HELMER MEP.

He is the only man in the European Parliament to say it as he sees it - a man who calls a spade a spade.

With his endorsement, I will happily travel up from London to campaign for you.

He is exactly the sort of man we need at Westminster to keep these girly apparatchiks in check and to stab 'em in the back if they betray us, like they did over their fey refusal to commit to RENEGOTIATE our relationship with the EUROPEAN FEDERAL STATE.

[Louise Bagshawe]

Davis Fan, and on that note, a big mea culpa - in trying to get the blogroll written in 15 minutes this morning I have omitted two of the very best Eurorealist blogs:

Roger Helmer MEP:

http://www.rogerhelmer.com/index.asp

Dan Hannan MEP:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/danielhannan/

[Tapestry]

and I guess you might mention www.eureferendum.blogspot.com which gets 80,000 hits a day, making it by far the biggest europolemic site - anywhere.

one of the top five right wing blogs for numbers of visitors.

with many posts every day. written by richard north and helen samuel(?) - also excellent on defence.

helmer is great - get his newsletter by email. recommended.

hannan - obviously.