Top 20s… hmmm…. totally invidious naturally, unless we’re in there! September 21, 2007
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A pleasant surprise this afternoon awaited me when I checked out Slugger O’Toole. In a list of the Top 20 Irish Political Blogs compiled by Mick Fealty for a book by Iain Dale we featured reasonably well. I was particularly taken by the description of the CLR as “A collective of old Left thinkers who refuse to decommission”. I’ll be 42 in October (cash, no cheques please), so that phrase is more accurate than one might think – for me at least, although thankfully not for my comrades. However it is a nice summing up of our position here in political and ideological terms.
In response to requests for names of sites that weren’t included I’ve pointed to some on the Slugger website. There are others, people who post infrequently, or not at all these days to other blogs. You know who you are 
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I’ve mentioned before how the CLR is expanding, and incorporating new features such as the Left Archive. There are other plans afoot too which we hope to be part of, but more anon. One aspect of the ethos of the CLR is a belief that we should have many voices, from different areas and a big part of that has been the input from those who comment on or just visit this blog. Cheers for that, it’s genuinely appreciated too and as you’ll have noticed we’ve tried to open it up for people to add their own contribution or thoughts through the Left Archive.
And remarkably once again one of our number, who goes by the pseudonym of Dónal, has been invited to discuss the Sunday Newspapers on Taste on NewsTalk 106-108fm – hosted by Fionn Davenport this Saturday evening sometime after 8.30 and before 9.00 p.m.
Only 3rd? Clearly a stitch up by them northerners.
“A collective of old Left thinkers who refuse to decommission”.
Decommission? We have not yet begun to fight. Bit chuffed with it I have to say despite the difficulties in comparing sites of different politics and writing styles.
I prefer, btw, to think of us as a bunch of thinkers who are ‘old left’ rather than old thinkers who are left. I’m sure that’s what was meant *cough*.
nah, Damian, a galaxy of great stuff out there. I read so much stuff and think, I wish we – and I mean collectively – had at least some hand in shaping the future. Then I think, well maybe we all do, or at least if we put our minds to it we can.