Iain Dale’s Top 100 left-of-centre blogs

Why they aren’t ‘left-wing’ I don’t know.

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/09/top-100-left-of-centre-blogs.html

I’m not on it - oh the shame!

To be honest I didn’t even know there were 100 left-wing blogs!

Tears for Gaza (or is that Gazza?)

I know it’s a typo but I still laughed (on the inside) when I saw that Iain Dale’s memories of England vs Germany in the World Cup semi-final of Italia ‘90 include ‘Gaza’s tears’.

What has the Gaza strip got to do with football?

The inspiration behind the blog - Nick Robinson and Mr’s Fawkes/Dale.

Ah, the inaugural first post. I better explain my reasons for this blog, such as they are:

1) I thought it would be therapeutic to have a blog to vent my frustrations on, rather than my friends/girlfriend/cat. This way I can post something and then forget about it (well that’s the theory).

2) There is something of a dearth of lefty/Labour blogs, so I thought maybe it would at least even up the balance against the might of the Mr’sFawkes and Dale.

3) I saw Nick Robinson the other day at Leeds train station! I realised no-one else would share my excitement and I thought to myself ‘If I had a blog I could post all about it’. So gather round and I shall tell ye a tale…

I saw Nick Robinson. He walked past me. Nothing much else to say really, his face was quite red and he looked annoyed/determined/constipated depending on how you look at it. I did an all too obvious double take and briefly contemplated telling him how much I enjoyed his blog, but then thought that, even though political commentators probably don’t get many fans on the streets, he looked too angry for me to pester him and I’d inevitably come across like an idiot. So I let him pass me by, like strangers in the night, except it was 7:30 in the morning, in Leeds.